Race and ethnic differences in peer influences on educational achievement

Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 437-460

  Kao, Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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