Many studies have used micro-level data in estimating earnings differentials by gender for college professors. None has studied racial earnings differences for faculty except by employing a dummy variable for race in its regression models. The availability of the 1993 National Study of...

Most studies that have examined the effect of race on earnings in the United States have used aggregated data. This often obscures as much as it reveals.This article computes white-black earnings differentials for a number of relatively narrow groups, and finds that the earnings gap varies...