Volume 18, Number 1 (Winter) 1983
Filer, Randall K. 1983. "Sexual Differences in Earnings: The Role of Individual Personalities and Tastes." Journal of Human Resources 18(1):82-99.
Individual personalities and tastes are incorporated into male and female earnings equations and their effects on discrimination are analyzed. Results indicate that the omission of tastes and personalities from previous studies may have led to an overestimation of the extent of discrimination against women without college schooling. In addition, the problem of discrimination appears to be substantially less for women with college degrees than for those who stopped their education after high school. Ultimately, however, there remain large components of the differential in earnings between men and women that have not been explained.
The author is Assistant Professor of Economics, Brandeis University.
The author wishes to thank his colleagues at Brandeis, especially Anne Carter,
for helpful comments. Any opinions and errors remain, of course, the
responsibility of the author.
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