Arbeitspapier
Race and the income-achievement gap
We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data linked to tax records, we study the income-achievement gap across different races and find important variation. The income-achievement gap is small for East Asian children while it is close to twice as large for Indigenous children. Sorting by income into schools accounts for a large portion of the variation in the income-achievement gap across all student groups. In addition, our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students may be rooted in inequality in health outcomes and poor housing conditions. Our findings on income-achievement gaps across race could partially explain the different intergenerational mobility outcomes by race documented by others.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 55
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Education and Inequality
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Thema
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test scores
income-achievement gaps
race
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bacic, Ryan
Zheng, Angela
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
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Waterloo
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bacic, Ryan
- Zheng, Angela
- University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
Entstanden
- 2023