Assessing what is cultural about Asian Americans' academic advantage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8321-8322

  Zhou, Min ^a,b   Lee, Jennifer ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; NOTE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS;

EID: 84902124929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407309111     Document Type: Note

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