ex1225: Gender Differences in Wages
Description
These data are weekly earnings for 9,835 Americans surveyed in the March 2011
Current Population Survey (CPS). What evidence is there from these data that
males tend to receive higher earnings than females with the same values of the
other variables? By how many dollars or by what percent does the male
distribution exceed the female distribution?source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Bureau of the Census: Current
Population Survey, March 2011 http://www.bls.gov/cps/data.htm
July 25, 2011.