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Title: Religious Workers' Density and the Racial Earnings Gap

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Publication Year: 2016

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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.

Url: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20161116

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Authors: Lozano, Fernando; Shiwen Cheng, Jessica

Periodical (Full): AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW

Issue: 5

Volume: 106

Pages: 355-59

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States