Public Education and Income Distribution: A Dynamic Quantitative Evaluation of Education-Finance Reform

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 813-833

  Fernández, Raquel ^a   Rogerson, Richard ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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