Racial and income‐based affirmative action in higher education admissions: Lessons from the Brazilian experience
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- Rodrigo Zeidan & Silvio Luiz de Almeida & In'acio B'o & Neil Lewis Jr, 2023. "Racial and income-based affirmative action in higher education admissions: lessons from the Brazilian experience," Papers 2304.13936, arXiv.org.
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