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Title: Discovering Opportunities in New York City's Discovery Program: Disadvantaged Students in Highly Competitive Markets
Award ID(s):
2046146
NSF-PAR ID:
10493121
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
Journal Name:
EC '23: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
ISBN:
9798400701047
Page Range / eLocation ID:
585 to 585
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
London United Kingdom
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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