The Gender Gap in Earnings Among Teachers: The Case of Iowa in 1915.
This paper draws on the 1915 Iowa State Census Report to decompose the gender gap in earnings into explained and unexplained parts. A novel feature is that the decomposition is performed not only at the mean but also over the entire distribution of earnings. In addition, an entire state, rather than...
| Published in: | Feminist Economics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 175 - 197 |
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