Discrimination: Experimental evidence from psychology and economics

Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 97-118

  Anderson, Lisa R ^a   Fryer, Roland G ^b   Holt, Charles A ^c  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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