Is an Academic Career a Luxury Good? Student Debt and the Under-Representation of Minorities
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- Robert M. Feinberg, 2020. "Is an academic career a luxury good? Student debt and the under-representation of minorities," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(4), pages 2964-2977.
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Keywords
Student debt; academic career; diversity; doctorates;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2019-07-29 (Education)
- NEP-SOG-2019-07-29 (Sociology of Economics)
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