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Title: Declining Gender Wage Inequality: More Variation Exists among Cohorts of Women than among States

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Replication, while not traditionally a focus of empirical economic research, preserves the scientific integrity of and often identifies errors in published studies. Using data from the Current Population Survey, I replicate and extend a 2013 study by Colin Campbell and Jessica Pearlman that finds that cohort effects—factors affecting the gender wage gap that change with time and differentially affect women of different ages—played a central role in the narrowing of the gender wage gap since 1975. While my replication of Campbell and Pearlman’s study yields similar results, the authors’ description of their sample is flawed, leaving me unable to match the sample used by Campbell and Pearlman. I extend Campbell and Pearlman’s study by examining state-level differences in period effects on the gender wage gap. My extension is informed by the observation that public opinion and public policies that likely affect the gender wage gap vary among states. My results indicate that cohort effects explain more of period effects on the gender wage gap than does state-level variation, implying that cohort effects have had a larger effect on the declining gender wage gap than state-level differences—such as differences in laws and attitudes—have had.

Url: https://sites.duke.edu/sjpp/files/2017/11/SJPP-Vol-7-Declining-Gender-Wage-Inequality-1.pdf

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Authors: Kruse, Anne

Periodical (Full): Sanford Journal of Public Policy

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Volume: 7

Pages: 24

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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