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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality

  • Joni Hersch
American Economic Review
vol. 96, no. 2, May 2006
(pp. 251–255)
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Citation

Hersch, Joni. 2006. "Skin-Tone Effects among African Americans: Perceptions and Reality." American Economic Review, 96 (2): 251–255. DOI: 10.1257/000282806777212071

JEL Classification

  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • J71 Labor Discrimination