what?! his discussion of the gender pay gap is where he gets precipitously owned by actual economists.
It's not true that the wage gap is only a problem if it isn't chosen freely?
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You are confusing moral and statistical issues. The wage gap isn't a problem if it's chosen freely, but the regression model you are advocating for does not demonstrate it is chosen freely
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Research-active economist here. The models used to analyze the wage gap cannot tell whether sex differences in occupation are due to women being shut out of some professions or due to women's preferences. Other evidence is needed to distinguish between those hypotheses.1/
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IMHO, the Scandinavian data on occupational choice, with which Helen is familiar, provide strong evidence that the preference hypothesis explains most sex differences in occupation. But, as is typical in economics, we can't completely rule out the other hypothesis. 2/
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