Gender and racial gaps in earnings among recent college graduates

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-72

  Zhang, Liang ^a,b,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell Higher Education Research Institute ^*

^c Peabody Coll   (United States)

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