The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade
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Nber Working Paper Series the Black-white Test Score Gap through Third Grade
We are grateful to Cecelia Rouse and the participants of the Brown V. Board of Education Conference at Princeton University for helpful comments and suggestions. Correspondence can be addressed to Fryer at Department of Economics, Harvard University, 1875 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA, 02138 (email: [email protected]); or Levitt at Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 E. 5...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Law and Economics Review
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1465-7252,1465-7260
DOI: 10.1093/aler/ahl003