Declining Bias and Gender Wage Discrimination? A Meta-Regression Analysis

By Stephen B. Jarrell, T. Stanley. The Journal of human resources, 2004

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This paper extends, tests, and revises a previous meta-regression analysis of the gender wage gap (Stanley and Jarrell 1998). We find that there remains a strong, though dampened, tendency for discrimination estimates to fall, and male researchers still report significantly larger amounts of wage discrimination against women. This extensive research base, containing 104 estimates, suggests that there is less need to correct for selection bias—an indirect sign of lessened discrimination. There is evidence that gender research is changing and improving. Although gender wage discrimination has lessened, the research base still finds a significant gender wage inequality.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap (2005, unknown): “Stanley and Jarrell (1998) as well as Jarrell and Stanley (2004) were the first to complement this survey literature with meta-analyses which systematically covered the published papers on gender wage differentials in the US.”
The Effect of Peer Socioeconomic Status on Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis (2010, unknown): “This decreases systematic variance (see e.g. Jarrell & Stanley (2004) treat the estimates for each of the individual countries as completely independent.”
The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation1 (2013, background): “602/2013/11903-0006$10.00 American Journal of Sociology ity more broadly and disadvantages women in prestige, pay, and power ðJarrell and Stanley 2004Þ.”
Meta-Regression Analysis as the Socio-Economics of Economic Research (2008, unknown): “The publicity of the tragic effects of publication bias (e.g., the increased teen suicides attributed in the media to taking Paxil) have caused the leading medical journals to require prior registration of clinical trials as a condition for their later publication (Krakovsky, 2004).”
Aid Effectiveness on Growth. A Meta Study (2008, background): “Recent examples include Gorg and Strobl (2001), Doucouliagos and Laroche (2003), Jarrell and Stanley (2004) and Dobson et al. (2006).”
The Gender Pay Gap: Challenging the Rationalizations. Perceived Equity, Discrimination, and the Limits of Human Capital Models (2012, background): “For example, Jarrell and Stanley (2004) argue that “Best research practice suggests that annual and weekly salaries should not form the basis of discrimination estimates; otherwise, gender differences in weeks worked per year or hours worked per week may bias these estimates” (p. 836), and Blau and…”
Unions and Profits: A Meta-Regression Analysis (2009, unknown): “Recent examples of MRA include Gorg and Strobl (2001), Doucouliagos and Laroche (2003), Jarrell and Stanley (2004) and Dobson et al. (2006).”
FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study (2011, unknown): “In particular it does not indicate the sign of the effect that was tested for significance (Jarrell and Stanley 2004).”
Gender Differences in Personality and Earnings:Evidence from Russia (2007, background): “The issue has been studied in application to many countries, and a common feature of these studies is the rather large difference in earnings of men and women (see Blau 1998, Gunderson 1989 1994, Jarrell and Stanley 2004, Newell and Reilly 2001 for the surveys and recent trends).”
Entrepreneurs' Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data (2009, result): “This interpretation is similar to what one finds in the labor market studies (Jarrell and Stanley (2004)).”
A Systematic Review of the Gender Pay Gap and Factors That Predict It (2017, background): “Particularly, three peer-reviewed journal articles (see Jarrell & Stanley, 2004; Stanley & Jarrell, 1998; Weichselbaumer & Winter-Ebmer, 2005) conducted metaanalyses of the gender pay gap in the workforce.”