Racial test score differences as evidence of reverse discrimination: Less than meets the eye

Industrial Relations

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-363

  Dickens, William T ^a   Kane, Thomas J ^b  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; RACIAL DISPARITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032825757     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0019-8676.00132     Document Type: Article

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