New Evidence on Race Discrimination under "Separate but Equal"

Bradley Hansen and Mary Hansen ()
Additional contact information
Mary Hansen: Department of Economics, American University

No 2005-11, Working Papers from American University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Recently uncovered 1906 Virginia teacher-salary data allow for more precise and consistent estimation of marginal returns to certification and formal education than available in previous studies. Virginia’s “separate but equal” educational system paid black teachers in rural counties lower wages than it paid white teachers and on average paid a lower premium to blacks for certification and formal education that it paid to whites. In incorporated cities, returns to certification and normal school education were about the same for black teachers and white teachers, although average salaries were lower for black teachers.

Keywords: race discrimination; teacher salaries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J7 N3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2005-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-hrm and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.17606/j60q-vk28 First version, 2005 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:amu:wpaper:1105

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from American University, Department of Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Meal ().