The Relative Returns to Graduating from a Historically Black College/University: Propensity Score Matching Estimates from the National Survey of Black Americans

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-130

  Price, Gregory N ^a   Spriggs, William ^b   Swinton, Omari H ^b  

^a MOREHOUSE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Colleges Universities; Labor market outcomes; Matching estimators

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956127443     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12114-011-9088-0     Document Type: Article

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