RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 630
OP 659
DO 10.3368/jhr.43.3.630
VO 43
IS 3
A1 Black, Dan A.
A1 Haviland, Amelia M.
A1 Sanders, Seth G.
A1 Taylor, Lowell J.
YR 2008
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/43/3/630.abstract
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.