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School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment
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The average wage differential between black and white men fell from 40 percent in 1960 to 25 percent in 1980 as discussed by the authors, attributed to a relative increase in the rate of return to schooling among black workers.Abstract:
The average wage differential between black and white men fell from 40 percent in 1960 to 25 percent in 1980. Much of this convergence is attributable to a relative increase in the rate of return to schooling among black workers. It is widely argued that the growth in the relative return to black education reflects the dramatic improvements in the quality of black schooling over the past century. To test this hypothesis we have assembled data on three aspects of school quality -- pupil teacher ratios. annual teacher pay. and term length for black and white schools in 18 segregated states from 1915 to 1966. The school quality data are linked to estimated rates of return to education for Southern-born men from different cohorts and states. measured in 1960. 1970. and 1980. Improvements in the relative quality of black schools explain 20 percent of the narrowing of the black-white earnings gap between 1960 and 1980.read more
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
David Card,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that men who were educated in states with higher-quality schools have a higher return to additional years of schooling and higher rates of return are also higher for individuals from states with better-educated teachers and with a higher fraction of female teachers.
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935
TL;DR: Anderson as discussed by the authors critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression and offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters.
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
David Card,Alan B. Krueger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that men who were educated in states with higher-quality schools have a higher return to additional years of schooling and higher rates of return are also higher for individuals from states with better-educated teachers and with a higher fraction of female teachers.
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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that men who were educated in states with higher quality schools have a higher return to additional years of schooling, holding constant their current state of residence, their state of birth, the average return to education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors.
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Continuous Versus Episodic Change: The Impact of Civil Rights Policy on the Economic Status of Blacks
TL;DR: The authors examined the available evidence on the causes of black economic advance in order to assess the contribution of federal policy and found that over the period 1920-1990, there were only two periods of relative black economic improvement - during the 1940s and in the decade following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the voting rights Act of 1965, and the institution of the government contracts compliance program.