Black/White Differences in Schooling and Employment
利用高中及以后纵向调查数据，发现黑人青年在数学和语文成绩相同时，比白人更可能继续上学，但就业率却更低；劳动市场机会差异可部分解释这一现象，而社区犯罪和福利领取率则没有影响。
This paper investigates the extent to which academic preparation, the structure of labor market opportunities, and exposure to nonmarket income alternatives explain race and gender differences in schooling and employment. Despite lower overall high school continuation and college attendance rates, Black men and women in the High School and Beyond Longitudinal Survey were actually more likely to continue high school and attend college than Whites with similar mathematics and verbal test scores. In contrast, Black school leavers had far lower employment rates than Whites with similar test scores. Multinomial logit estimates show that fewer job opportunities for Blacks offer a partial explanation for the observed patterns of schooling and employment. There is little or no evidence, however, that community crime and welfare recipiency rates affected the probability of employment for Blacks or Whites.