Religious Workers' Density and the Racial Earnings Gap

Fernando Lozano () and Jessica Shiwen Cheng

American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106, issue 5, 355-59

Abstract: We explore differences between Black and White Non-Hispanic workers in the relationship between childhood exposure to religious workers and a worker's labor market outcomes thirty years later. We identify this relationship by exploiting two sources of variation: we use changes in the number of religious workers within states, and we use states' differences by following workers who moved to a different state. Our results suggest that a one percent increase in the number of clergy increases the earnings of Black workers by a range from 0.027 to 0.082 percent relative to the increase in the earnings of White workers.

JEL-codes: J15 J31 J61 R23 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161116
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