Race and Gender Differences in College Major Choice.
College major choice varies substantially by gender, race, and ethnicity among college graduates. This study investigates whether these differences are present at the start of the college career and whether they can be explained by variation in academic preparation. It estimates a multinomial logit...
| Publicado en: | Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science Vol. 627; pp. 108 - 125 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
January 2010
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