Replication data for: The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Roland G., Jr. Fryer; Michael Greenstone

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Fryer, Roland G., Jr., and Greenstone, Michael. Replication data for: The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113736V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Using nationally representative data files from 1970s and 1990s college attendees, we find that in the 1970s matriculation at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was associated with higher wages and an increased probability of graduation, relative to attending a traditionally white institution. By the 1990s, there is a wage penalty resulting in a 20 percent decline in the relative wages of HBCU graduates between the two decades. There is modest support for the possibility that the relative decline in wages associated with HBCU matriculation is partially due to improvements in TWIs' effectiveness at educating blacks. (JEL I23, J15, J24, J31)

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      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials


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