Volume 19, Number 3 (Summer) 1984
Goldberger, Arthur S. 1984. “Reverse Regression and Salary Discrimination.” Journal of Human Resources 19(3):293-318.
Reverse regression has recently been proposed to assess discrimination by gender or race. We consider several stochastic models and find one that justifies reverse regression. Testable implications are deduced, and the analysis is illustrated with empirical material.
The author is Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presented at the winter meetings of the Econometric Society, San Francisco, December 28-30, 1983. For research support I am grateful to the William F. Vilas Trust and to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. For instructive comments, I am grateful to John Abowd, Michael Birnbaum, Gail Blattenberger, Gary Chamberlain, Delores Conway, Christopher Flinn, Edward Leamer, Thomas MaCurdy, Charles Manski, Stephan Michelson, Jon Peck, John Pencavel, and Solomon Polachek.
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