Variations between Latino groups in US post-secondary educational attainment

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 511-533

  Garcia, Lisette M ^a   Bayer, Alan E ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College completion; Cuban; Educational attainment; High school and beyond data; Hispanic; Human capital theory; Latino; Logit analysis; Mexican American; Puerto Rican; Structural discrimination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444432892     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-005-3363-5     Document Type: Article

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