Religious Workers' Density and the Racial Earnings Gap
Fernando Lozano, Jessica Shiwen Cheng
American Economic Review · 2016 · Volume 106 · Issue 5
Abstract
We explore differences between Black and White Non-Hispanic workers in the relationship between childhood exposure to religious workers and a worker's labor market outcomes thirty years later. We identify this relationship by exploiting two sources of variation: we use changes in the number of religious workers within states, and we use states' differences by following workers who moved to a different state. Our results suggest that a one percent increase in the number of clergy increases the earnings of Black workers by a range from 0.027 to 0.082 percent relative to the increase in the earnings of White workers.
Keywords
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants, Non-labor Discrimination, Wage Level and Structure, Wage Differentials, Geographic Labor Mobility, Immigrant Workers, Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration, Regional Labor Markets, Population, Neighborhood Characteristics, Cultural Economics: Religion
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