Does ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? Evidence from a field experiment

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 547-573

  Booth, Alison L ^a,b   Leigh, Andrew ^b   Varganova, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84863539382     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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