Masters, Stanley H. 1974. "The Effect of Educational Differences and Labor-Market Discrimination on the Relative Earnings of Black Males." Journal of Human Resources 9(3):342-360.

Using both the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity and the 1/1,000 sample of the 1960 Census, we find that much more of the racial earnings gap should be attributed to labor-market discrimination than to differences in years of school. Although differences in scholastic attainment have more effect than differences in years of school per se, labor-market discrimination remains important even when productivity differences are measured primarily in terms of predicted test scores rather than years of school.

The author is Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame. This research was supported by funds granted to the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The author wishes to thank Burt Barnow, Irwin Garfinkel, and Thomas Ribich for helpful comments, and Burt Barnow and Nancy Williamson for handling the computer programming efficiently and cheerfully. The conclusions are the sole responsibility of the author.

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