The college type: Personality and educational inequality

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 421-441

  Lundberg, Shelly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 84879437059     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671056     Document Type: Article

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