Tax law: Implicit bias and the earned income tax credit

Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 164-178

  Brown, Dorothy A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84928859814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511820595.011     Document Type: Chapter

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