women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

Obesity is significantly more prevalent among non-Hispanic African-American (henceforth "black") women than among non …]Hispanic white American (henceforth gwhiteh) women. These differences have persisted without much alteration since the early 1970s … and in obesity prevalence between black women and white women do not narrow substantially after controlling for …