get_college_wage_premium {epidata}

Retreive the percent by which hourly wages of college graduates exceed those of otherwise equivalent high school graduates

Description

A regression-based college wage premium of 56.1 percent means that on average workers with a college degree are paid 56.1 percent more per hour than workers whose highest education credential is a high school diploma, all else held equal (controlling for gender, race and ethnicity, education, experience, and geographic location).

Usage

get_college_wage_premium(by = NULL)

Arguments

by

NULL or g for a parition by gender

Value

tbl_df with data filtered by the selected criteria.

References

Economic Policy Institute Data Library

Examples

if (not_dos()) get_college_wage_premium()

if (not_dos()) get_college_wage_premium("g")