PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dan A. Black
AU  - Amelia M. Haviland
AU  - Seth G. Sanders
AU  - Lowell J. Taylor
TI  - Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.43.3.630
DP  - 2008 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 630--659
VI  - 43
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/3/630.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/3/630.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2008 Jul 01; 43
AB  - We examine gender wage disparities for four groups of college-educated women—black, Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic white—using the National Survey of College Graduates. Raw log wage gaps, relative to non-Hispanic white male counterparts, generally exceed –0.30. Estimated gaps decline to between –0.08 and –0.19 in nonparametric analyses that (1) restrict attention to individuals who speak English at home and (2) match individuals on age, highest degree, and major. Among women with work experience comparable to men’s, these estimated gaps are smaller yet—between –0.004 and –0.13. Importantly, we find that inferences from familiar regression-based decompositions can be quite misleading.