What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?

George-Levi Gayle (), Limor Golan () and Mehmet Soytas ()

No 2015-18, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: This paper analyzes the sources of the racial difference in the intergenerational transmission of human capital by developing and estimating a dynastic model of parental time and monetary inputs in early childhood with endogenous fertility, home hours, labor supply, marriage, and divorce. It finds that the racial differences in the marriage matching patterns lead to racial differences in labor supply and home hours of couples. Although both the black-white labor market earnings and marriage market gaps are important sources of the black-white achievement gap, the assortative mating and divorce probabilities racial gaps accounts for a larger fraction of it.

Keywords: Life-cycle dynastic models; Household allocation of resource; Estimation of dynamic game of complete information; Human capital production function; Quantity-quality trade-off. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 J13 J22 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 98 pages
Date: 2015-02-27
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