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Part V - Policy Session: What can Economics do for Racial Justice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2025

Victor Chernozhukov
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Johannes Hörner
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Eliana La Ferrara
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Iván Werning
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Advances in Economics and Econometrics
Twelfth World Congress
, pp. 259 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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