Personality type and student performance in upper-level economics courses: The importance of race and gender

Journal of Economic Education

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-14

  Borg, Mary O ^a   Stranahan, Harriet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

A2; Economic education; Gender; MBTI; Personality type

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044528768     PISSN: 00220485     EISSN: 21524068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220480209596120     Document Type: Article

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