Charles E. Boynton is a program manager and senior program analyst with the IRS Large and Midsize Business Division Office of Research and Workload Identification. From September 2000 through May 2006, he was a Surrey Senior Research Fellow for the Treasury Office of Tax Analysis. He has been a...

The estimation of racial disparities in various fields is often hampered by the lack of individual-level racial information. In many cases, the law prohibits the collection of such information to prevent direct racial discrimination. As a result, analysts have frequently adopted Bayesian...