Same work, lower grade? Student ethnicity and teachers' subjective assessments

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1045-1058

  Van Ewijk, Reyn ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Ethnicity; Experiment; Grading

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 80051664900     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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