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For many years, schooling has been considered one of the main avenues for overcoming the effects of the long history of racial discrimination and exclusion in the United States. This view is based on the notion that, independent of other considerations, schooling increases one’s value in the labor market and thereby raises earnings. A prerequisite for education to be successful in this role of equalizing opportunities is that blacks must, on average, attain at least as much schooling as similarly endowed whites.1
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Datcher, L.P. (1984). The Effect of Racial Differences in Background on Schooling: A Survey. In: Darity, W. (eds) Labor Economics: Modern Views. Recent Economic Thought Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5636-0_5
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