Background: Studies addressing pay discrimination for females in education have relied on main effect regression models, mostly examining amount (intercept values) rather than rate of pay (slope coefficients). Purpose:The purpose is to determine if organizational characteristics and human capital endowments purported to influence pay are facially neutral (amount of pay) or have a disproportional impact (rate of pay) for female middle school principals. Setting: The population is all California public middle school principals, who are stratified by sex and randomly selected through a sampling process that includes only a single principal from any school district. Research Design: A hierarchical regression design is used to assess main effects for organizational characteristics and human capital variables (amount) and interaction effects (rate) of these variables and a residual effect for sex.
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