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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
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 55
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Education and Inequality
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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test scores
income-achievement gaps
race
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bacic, Ryan
Zheng, Angela
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
- (where)
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Waterloo
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bacic, Ryan
- Zheng, Angela
- University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
Time of origin
- 2023
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