Democratic Choice of an Education System: Implications for Growth and Income Distribution

Journal of Economic Growth

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 169-183

  Gradstein, Mark ^a,b   Justman, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Education; Growth; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000116890     PISSN: 13814338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009781101707     Document Type: Article

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