Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal Job-Training Program

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 383-388

  Courty, Pascal ^a   Marschke, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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