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Title: Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap
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Zhou, Xiang Pan, Guanghui |
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Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): College Education; Racial Equality/Inequality; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We employ a novel causal decomposition, along with a debiased machine learning method for estimation, to isolate the equalizing and disequalizing effects of college on the black-white earnings gap and unveil the sources of these effects. Analyzing data from the NLSY97, we find that among men, the attainment of a BA degree has a strong equalizing effect on earnings in their early thirties, but this equalizing effect is blunted by a disequalizing effect associated with unequal likelihoods of BA completion. To illuminate the policy implications of our findings, we estimate counterfactual black-white earnings gaps under a set of idealized educational interventions. We find that only interventions that both boost rates of college attendance and BA completion and close racial disparities in these transitions can substantially reduce the black-white earnings gap. |
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Zhou, Xiang and Guanghui Pan. "Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap." Presented: Atlanta GA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022. |