At 12:10 PM 6/2/2004 -0500, Richard Williams wrote:
Put another way, African Americans may get fewer promotions than whites
because they have lower levels of education (compositional differences);
but they may also get fewer promotions because the effect of education is
smaller for whites than it is for blacks (differences in effects). Once
you control for differences in composition, how much of a gap (if any)
remains between racial groups?
I reversed my signs here -- should be "larger for whites" not smaller.
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