The socioeconomic status of black males: The increasing importance of incarceration

Public Policy and the Distribution of Income

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 319-358

  Raphael, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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