Difference in Black and White Earnings

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The Disparity between Black and White Earnings There is has been much controversy discussing the difference in wage earnings between blacks and whites. African Americans are working full time year round and laws about discrimination have been passed in the work field. Despite this “African American men working full time and year round have 72 percent of the average earnings of comparable white men. For African American and white women, the ratio is 85 percent” (Rogers). All signs point to discrimination in the work place. However, before we come to this conclusion there are other factors that we must look at. Even though it is clear that Whites earn more than Blacks, if one utilizes statistical methods and tools, namely multi-variable regression analysis, to control for various factors that might explain these differences in earnings. Throughout the rest of my literature review, I will analyze several academic papers which we will try to discover and explain for the reason of the race gap in earnings between Whites and Blacks. To start we will look at two scholarly researches: “The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade” by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Steven D. Levitt and “Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School” by Ronald G. Fryer, Jr. and Steven D. Levitt. The first paper, “The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade, describes basic fact regarding the black-white test score gap over the first four years of school. There is a hug disparity between Black and White test scores. The numbers are actually startling, on every subject in every grade there are substantial differences between Blacks and Whites. Fryer and Levitt collect data on a wide range of children, measuring primarily on math and reading standardized test scores. The tests were administered to the full sample in the fall and spring of
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