TABLE 6.

The wage effects of horizontal mismatch by diversity category

Dependent Variable: Log annual wage	White Male Model 1	White Female Model 2	Nonwhite Male Model 3	Nonwhite Female Model 4
Mismatch
Somewhat related (Ref: Closely related)	−0.034	0.003	−0.040	−0.030
	(0.031)	(0.032)	(0.040)	(0.032)
Not related	−0.209***	−0.173***	−0.197***	−0.216***
	(0.033)	(0.035)	(0.042)	(0.034)
Degree field
Political and related sciences (Ref: Economics)	−0.091**	−0.045	−0.106*	−0.043
	(0.035)	(0.054)	(0.046)	(0.048)
Psychology	−0.274***	−0.284***	−0.226***	−0.177***
	(0.035)	(0.046)	(0.045)	(0.043)
Sociology and anthropology	−0.307***	−0.309***	−0.212***	−0.229***
	(0.041)	(0.052)	(0.050)	(0.048)
Other social sciences	− 0.244***	−0.229***	−0.225***	−0.237***
	(0.042)	(0.056)	(0.058)	(0.053)
Race: Asian (Ref: Black)			0.149**	0.187***
			(0.046)	(0.038)
Hispanic			0.130**	0.050
			(0.043)	(0.034)
Other			0.109	0.048
			(0.056)	(0.045)
Degree: Master (Ref: Bachelor)	0.083**	0.129***	0.048	0.162***
	(0.029)	(0.028)	(0.039)	(0.030)
Doctorate	0.455***	0.413***	0.435***	0.284*
	(0.087)	(0.093)	(0.116)	(0.120)
Professional	0.206	0.514***	0.239	0.502***
	(0.124)	(0.100)	(0.203)	(0.125)
Supervisor	0.245***	0.261***	0.294***	0.210***
	(0.025)	(0.027)	(0.033)	(0.028)
Training	0.063*	0.145***	0.192***	0.130***
	(0.025)	(0.027)	(0.033)	(0.027)
	(0.036)	(0.035)	(0.045)	(0.035)
Constant	7.871***	7.802***	7.527***	7.990***
	(0.168)	(0.177)	(0.224)	(0.187)
Observations	3,191	3,946	2,008	3,333
AdjR2	0.4265	0.4089	0.4328	0.4117

Note. Data 2013 National Survey of College Graduates.

SEs in parentheses:

^***p < 0.001

^**p < 0.01, and

^*p < 0.05.

All analyses include controls for age, marriage, children, full time status, work duration, employer size, employer type, and employer location.