Three estimates of potential earnings of women not in the labor force, based on two data sets, were obtained (1) by using the coefficients from the regression of employed women with characteristics of the homemaker, (2) by using Heckman's adjustment for selection bias, and (3) by using the...

Using data on faculty salaries at a large university, we follow a methodology suggested by Goldberger to conduct an empirical test of the Conway-Roberts proposition that reverse and not forward regression is the proper way to detect salary discrimination. We obtained 11 different estimates of...