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Title: Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?
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1. Barrow, Lisa
Rouse, Cecilia Elena
Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?
American Economic Review 95,2 (May 2005): 83-87.
Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/000282805774670130
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Ethnic Differences; Hispanics; Racial Differences

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This article examines the variations in returns to schooling rates in the U.S. The article further evidence on the variation in returns to schooling by examining whether the benefits vary by race and ethnicity of the individual. Using data from the U.S. Decennial Census and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979, the article find little evidence of differences in the return to schooling across racial and ethnic groups, even with attempts to control for ability and measurement-error biases. As a result, policies that increase education among the low-skilled, who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic, have a good possibility of increasing economic well-being and reducing inequality.
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Barrow, Lisa and Cecilia Elena Rouse. "Do Returns to Schooling Differ by Race and Ethnicity?" American Economic Review 95,2 (May 2005): 83-87.