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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?

Usage

ex1225

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.

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