The Quality of Education and Cohort Variation in Black-White Earnings Differentials: Reply.

Welch, Finis

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Publication Date: 1980-Mar

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The Quality of Education and Cohort Variation in Black-White Earnings Differentials: Reply.

Welch, Finis

American Economic Review, v70 n1 p192-95 Mar 1980

Examines the methodology used by the authors of the article immediately preceding this one. Questions both the use of expenditure per student as a measure of educational quality and the cohort effect's influence on the differences in the wage earnings of Blacks and Whites. Available from American Economic Review, 1313 21st Avenue So., Suite 809, Nashville, TN 37212. (IRT)

Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Higher Education, Mathematical Models, Racial Discrimination, Racial Factors, Research Methodology, Salary Wage Differentials

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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