A community college instructor like me: Race and ethnicity interactions in the classroom

American Economic Review

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2567-2591

  Fairlie, Robert W ^a   Hoffmann, Florian ^b   Oreopoulos, Philip ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 84907000993     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: 19447981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.8.2567     Document Type: Article

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