The incubated revolution: Education, cohort effects, and the linguistic wage gap in Quebec during the 20th century
研究魁北克法语与英语群体间工资差距在1970-2000年间的缩小，发现1940年代义务教育改革通过队列效应推动了这一变化，对理解教育政策如何影响群体间经济平等有参考价值。
Wage gaps between various groups within economies are common and policy solutions to attenuate them can have different distributional effects within groups. We propose a model to think about how, when labour is relatively immobile but capital isn’t, an economy with initial wage gaps between different groups can transition toward greater equality. We apply this framework to the French-English linguistic wage gap in Quebec (Canada) between 1970 and 2000 by looking at birth cohorts from 1910 to 1970. Our findings are consistent with our model: the closing of the wage gap was caused by a change, during the 1940s in compulsory schooling which shocked the initial equilibrium and led to cohort-specific dynamics.