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lumberjack_jeff

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3. They did not control for gender.
Mon Aug 17, 2015, 12:24 AM
Aug 2015

Since hispanic and black college graduates are even more likely to be women than white and asian graduates, their salaries are affected to a greater degree by the same gender-based factors of choice that reduce other women's salaries.

The gist of their conclusion may very well be truthy, but their methodology makes it useless as a template for action.

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