Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269209 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 55
Publisher: 
University of Waterloo, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), Waterloo
Abstract: 
We study whether racial disparities in economic opportunity appear at an early age. Using administrative education data linked to tax records, we study the income-achievement gap across different races and find important variation. The income-achievement gap is small for East Asian children while it is close to twice as large for Indigenous children. Sorting by income into schools accounts for a large portion of the variation in the income-achievement gap across all student groups. In addition, our results suggest that the large income-achievement gap for Indigenous students may be rooted in inequality in health outcomes and poor housing conditions. Our findings on income-achievement gaps across race could partially explain the different intergenerational mobility outcomes by race documented by others.
Subjects: 
test scores
income-achievement gaps
race
JEL: 
I20
I24
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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