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Peer reviewedBecker, William; Goodman, Rebecca – Economics of Education Review, 1991
Using data from a class action suit at the University of Minnesota, this paper shows the different costs arising from paying women a percentage increase on their actual salaries, versus paying them predicted salaries as if they were men. The political consequences of enacting these different equalization methods (without additional funding) are…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Regression (Statistics)
