and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. We found that changes in human capital did not contribute to the trends …

to the race and gender gaps. We exploit variation in an individual's height over time to explore how height affects wages …. Controlling for teen height essentially eliminates the effect of adult height on wages for white males. The teen height premium is …

did contribute to the relative improvement in female wages in concentrated relative to competitive industries, suggesting …

%u2013 including absenteeism %u2013 to set wages. Since men are absent from work because of health and shirking reasons …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

Taken as a whole, the literature on black-white wage inequality suggests that racial gaps in potential wages are much … larger among men than women, and further that one can accurately assess black-white gaps in potential wages among women … conventional wisdom. I provide several estimates of the black-white gap in potential wages for the year 1990 using data from the …

turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the … paid in accordance with their own ability, while the wages of high school graduates are initially completely unrelated to … differences in wages, education, and the returns to ability. In particular, we find no racial differences in wages or returns to …