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Data and Code for: Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Lawrence Katz, Harvard University. Department of Economics; Claudia Goldin, Harvard University. Department of Economics; David Autor, MIT

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Project Citation:

Katz, Lawrence, Goldin, Claudia, and Autor, David. Data and Code for: Extending the Race between Education and Technology. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-08-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120694V1

Project Description

Summary: The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining US wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change, combined with variations in the supply of skills from changes in educational access. We expand the analysis backwards and forwards. The framework helps explain rising skill differentials in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, but needs to be augmented to illuminate the recent convexification of education returns and implied slowdown in the growth of the relative demand for college workers. Increased educational wage differentials explain 75 percent of the rise of U.S. wage inequality from 1980 to 2000 as compared to 38 percent for 2000 to 2017.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Human Capital; Returns to Education; Wage Structure

JEL Classification:
      I26 Returns to Education
      J23 Labor Demand
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
      N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-

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