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Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated.

Dan A Black¹, Amelia Haviland², Seth G Sanders³

¹University of Chicago & NORC Harris School University of Chicago 1155 East 60 Street Chicago, IL 60637.

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|June 23, 2015

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College-educated women face a significant wage gap compared to men. Pre-market factors like education and experience explain a substantial portion of this gender pay disparity.

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Economics
Sociology
Labor Studies

Background:

College-educated women in the U.S. earn about 30% less than non-Hispanic white men.
Significant wage disparities persist across racial and ethnic groups of women.

Purpose of the Study:

To empirically examine the gender wage gap for college-educated women.
To quantify the extent to which pre-market factors explain these wage disparities for different demographic groups.

Main Methods:

Utilized the National Survey of College Graduates for detailed higher education data.
Employed nonparametric matching analysis to assess wage gap determinants.
Conducted parametric analyses for comparative insights.

Main Results:

Pre-market factors (degree, major) accounted for 44-73% of the gender wage gap for English-speaking individuals.
For women with high labor force attachment, 54-99% of the wage gap was explained by these factors.
Nonparametric methods provided less misleading inferences than traditional regression-based decompositions.

Conclusions:

Pre-market factors significantly explain a large portion of the gender wage gap among college-educated women.
Nonparametric analysis offers a more reliable method for decomposing wage disparities.
Further research into remaining unexplained wage gaps is warranted.