Racial Wage Gaps and test Score Differences: Incentives vs. Pre-Market Factors

Peter Norman () and Andrea Moro

No 248, 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We use a simple model of statistical discrimination to empirically disentangle two different sources of racial wage inequality: differences in the distribution of pre-market factors that affect human capital, and differences in incentives to acquire human capital when young. We show how the equilibrium restrictions from the model help us identify such factors. We estimate the parameters of the model using NLSY data on wage, education, and AFQT test scores.

Keywords: Statistical Discrimination; Wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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