Prejudice and Wages: An Empirical Assessment of Becker’s The Economics of Discrimination
实证检验贝克尔关于雇主偏见的理论，发现黑人相对工资与州内“边缘”白人的偏见负相关，与偏见分布低尾部分负相关，与黑人人口比例负相关，估计偏见解释了种族工资差距的四分之一。
We test the predictions from Becker's (1957) seminal work on employer prejudice and find that relative black wages (a) vary negatively with the prejudice of the "marginal" white in a state, (b) vary negatively with the prejudice in the lower tail of the prejudice distribution but are unaffected by the prejudice of the most prejudiced persons in a state, and (c) vary negatively with the fraction of a state that is black. Our estimates suggest that one-quarter of the racial wage gap is due to prejudice, with nontrivial consequences for black lifetime earnings. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.