README.md

RauhValladaresEsteban2023.jl

This package provides all codes to replicate the main exhibits of On the Black-White Gaps in Labor Supply and Earnings over the Lifecycle in the US by Christopher Rauh and Arnau Valladares-Esteban.

The user needs to download the raw data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the Youth 1979 and store it in the folder stata/ following the naming details in stata/main.do.

produce_exhibits.jl

Execute this file to produce all the figures and tables displayed below and reported in the paper.

As a reference, using the following CPU:

Architecture:                       x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):                     32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:                         Little Endian
Address sizes:                      39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s):                             8
On-line CPU(s) list:                0-7
Thread(s) per core:                 2
Core(s) per socket:                 4
Socket(s):                          1
NUMA node(s):                       1
Vendor ID:                          GenuineIntel
CPU family:                         6
Model:                              158
Model name:                         Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Stepping:                           9
CPU MHz:                            800.036
CPU max MHz:                        4200.0000
CPU min MHz:                        800.0000
BogoMIPS:                           7200.00
Virtualisation:                     VT-x
L1d cache:                          128 KiB
L1i cache:                          128 KiB
L2 cache:                           1 MiB
L3 cache:                           8 MiB
NUMA node0 CPU(s):                  0-7

Running the following OS:

Linux 5.4.0-166-generic #183-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 2 11:28:33 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The total execution time for produce_exhibits.jl is of around 4 hours.

Model Documentation

Figure 1: Employment, hours worked, cumulative experience, and annual earnings over the lifecycle by Black and White men

Table 1: Test of parallelism in earnings experience profiles between Black and White men

See stata/main.do.

Figure 2: Mean annual earnings over the lifecycle for Black and White men that do not experience any non-employment spell

Figure 3: Distribution of AFQT deciles by race

Figure 4: Hourly earnings conditional on working by race for AFQT deciles over the lifecycle

Table 2: Regressing hourly earnings conditional on working on race and cumulative labor market experience for AFQT deciles 1-5

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Figure 5: Employment rates over the lifecycle by race and AFQT deciles

Figure 6: Mean hourly wages over the lifecycle conditional on working by AFQT/ability decile (data vs. model)

Figure 7: Hours worked over the lifecycle conditional on employment for AFQT/ability groupings by race (data vs. model)

Figure 8: Employment rates over the lifecycle by AFQT/ability decile (data vs. model)

Table 5: How racial gaps respond to assigning characteristics of White men to Black men

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Figure 9: Racial gaps over the lifecycle in the data: benchmark and counterfactual of equal initial conditions

Hourly Wage	Employment

Figure B.1: Annual (left) and hourly (right) log labor income over the lifecycle

Table B.1: Regressing hourly earnings conditional on working on race and cumulative labor market experience by AFQT deciles

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Figure B.2: Hours worked conditional on working by race for AFQT deciles over the lifecycle

Figure B.3: Mean annual earnings over the lifecycle conditional on working for Black and White men that experience no non-employment spells, by education groups

Figure B.4: Mean annual earnings by cumulative hours worked conditional on working for Black and White men that experience no non-employment spells, by education groups

Figure B.5: AFQT score distributions by race and education (absolute)

Figure B.6: AFQT score distributions by race and education (relative)

Figure B.7: Hourly wages conditional on working for AFQT score groupings by race over the lifecycle for men without non-employment spells

Figure B.8: Mean individual fixed effect (left) and experience effect (right) for hourly wage by race and AFQT decile

Figure B.9: Distribution of individual fixed effects (left) and experience effects (right) for hourly wage by race and AFQT decile

Figure B.10: Mean hourly wages at age 23

Figure B.11: Mean hourly wages at age 23 for Blacks and Whites

Figure B.12: Yearly earnings for AFQT/ability groupings by race over the lifecycle (data vs. model

Figure B.13: Employment rates for AFQT/ability deciles 5-10 by race over the lifecycle (data vs. model

Figure B.14: Hours worked conditional on working for AFQT/ability deciles 5-10 by race over the lifecycle (data vs. model)