Acting White: A critical review

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Acting White: A critical review

The hypothesis of acting White has been heatedly debated and influential over the last 20 years or so in explaining the Black-White test score gap. Recently, economists have joined the debate and started providing new theoretical and empirical analyses of the phenomenon. This paper critically review...

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Main Author:	Sohn, Kitae
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/51779

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