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Title: Isolating Mechanisms for the Racial Divide in Education and the Labor Market: Evidence from Interracial Families

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: Diff erences between blacks and whites in test scores and labor market outcomes are stark. While much catchup occurred post-Civil rights, convergence has slowed.We examine how diff erences across education and labor market outcomes vary by maternal race and own race with identifi cation coming from families where the race ofthe mother diff ers from the race of the child. While black students with white mothers come from families with similar demographics to black students with black mothers, their education and labor market outcomes are very di fferent. There are no signifi cant diff erences in test scores, grades, college graduation, and wages between black andwhite males with white mothers, yet large diff erences exist between these groups and black males with black mothers. These results are insensitive to alternative measuresof own-race, using skin tone instead of own race, and including school fixed e ffects.

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Authors: Sanders, Seth; Beauchamp, Andrew; Hull, Marie; Arcidiacono, Peter

Publisher: Duke University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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