The Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 889-914

  McDaniel, Anne ^a   DiPrete, Thomas A ^b   Buchmann, Claudia ^a   Shwed, Uri ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black African American; Educational attainment; Gender; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960524155     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0037-0     Document Type: Article

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