The gender gap: Using the lab as a window on the market

Frontiers in the Economics of Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 223-242

  Eckel, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 84908919298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203927694     Document Type: Chapter

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