Productivity or Discrimination? Beauty and the Exams

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 428-447

  Cipriani, Giam Pietro ^a   Zago, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

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EID: 79953315771     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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