Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-08-28
Lucie Schmidt of Williams College reviews “Poverty and Discrimination” by Kevin Lang,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores what we know about poverty and discrimination and how we know about them, using rigorous statistical analysis and economic thinking. Discusses who is poor; the evolution of poverty policy; trends in poverty; labor market policies; family composition; concentrated poverty; education and education reform; welfare reform; discrimination--theory; race discrimination in the labor market; race discrimination and education; race discrimination in customer markets and the judicial system; sex discrimination; and an agenda to decrease poverty and discrimination. Lang is Chairman of the Boston University Department of Economics. Author and subject indexes.”