Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
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- Sandra E. Black & Kalena E. Cortes & Jane Arnold Lincove, 2015. "Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application," NBER Working Papers 21368, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Black, Sandra E. & Cortes, Kalena E. & Lincove, Jane Arnold, 2015. "Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application," IZA Discussion Papers 9169, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
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