Using both the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census, we find that much more of the racial earnings gap should be attributed to labor-market discrimination than to differences in years of school. Although differences in scholastic attainment have more...

In this paper an attempt is made to estimate the degree of inequality of educational opportunity at the secondary school level. Data from the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census are used to estimate the probabilities of falling behind in school or dropping out for children from different family...