Entry:

Card, David and Krueger, Alan B., “School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107 (February, 1992), 151-200.


Abstract:

From 1960 to 1980, the wage differential between black and white men fell 15%. This decrease has been attributed to improvements in the relative quality of black schools. After testing this hypothesis, this article asserts that school improvements explain 20% of the narrowing of the black-white earnings gap between 1960 and 1980. .

GSS Years:

1990

Other Data Sets:

Census

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
IWRKHARD

Variable Label could not be found

RACE

RACE OF RESPONDENT

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

SEX

RESPONDENTS SEX

REGION

REGION OF INTERVIEW