Can the "one-drop rule" tell us anything about racial discrimination? New evidence from the multiple race question on the 2000 Census

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-460

  Fairlie, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349146732     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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