Skin color,sex, and educational attainment in the post-civil rights era |
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| Authors: | Amelia R Branigan Jeremy Freese Assaf Patir Thomas W McDade Kiang Liu Catarina I Kiefe |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1812 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60208, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, United States;3. Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;4. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States;5. Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University, United States;6. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States;1. School of Business Administration, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea;2. Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, United States;3. Department of Organizational Behavior, Cornell University, United States;1. Department of Sociology, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172380, Bozeman, MT 59717-2380, USA;2. Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 232 Life Science, Duluth, MN 55812-3003, USA;1. Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | We assess the relationship between skin color and educational attainment for native-born non-Hispanic Black and White men and women, using data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. CARDIA is a medical cohort study with twenty years of social background data and a continuous measure of skin color, recorded as the percent of light reflected off skin. For Black men and women, we find a one-standard-deviation increase in skin lightness to be associated with a quarter-year increase in educational attainment. For White women, we find an association approximately equal in magnitude to that found for Black respondents, and the pattern of significance across educational transitions suggests that skin color for White women is not simply a proxy for family background. For White men, any relationship between skin color and attainment is not robust and, analyses suggest, might primarily reflect differences in family background. Findings suggest that discrimination on the basis of skin color may be less specific to race than previously thought. |
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| Keywords: | Educational attainment Skin color Occupational prestige |
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