This package contains intermediate results from the analysis in "Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities." These are the output numbers that are used to construct the graphs seen in the paper. There are four intermediate files:

inst_pop.csv - This file gives the institutionalization rate by race and year, calculated from the Decennial Census and American Community Survey. It is produced by raceineq_inst_rate.R in the replication package.

natdecs.csv - This file gives the fraction of the total, white, and black population in each natinonal income decile for each year and sample construction. It is produced by raceineq_prep.R in the replication package.

natpctiles.csv - This file gives the income at each national income percentile for each year and sample construction, in 2015 dollars. It is produced by raceineq_prep.R in the replication package.

raceineq.csv - This file contains the primary output of the analysis. This includes black and white incomes in 2015 dollars at each decile of their racial income distribution ('black_pct5' is the median black income, for instance), the national income ranks at each decile in the black and white distributions ('black_rpct5' is the median black rank, for example), the ratios between blacks and whites at each decile ('rat_pct5'), and the difference in national ranks at each decile ('rdif_pct5'). Each statistic is computed for each year and sample construction. This file is produced by raceineq_prep.R in the replication package.