A panel analysis of student mathematics achievement in the US in the 1990s: Does increasing the amount of time in learning activities affect math achievement?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-277

  Aksoy, Tevfik ^a   Link, Charles R ^b  

^a Investment Banking   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Educational economics; Government policy; Input output analysis; JEL 12

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000717304     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0272-7757(99)00045-x     Document Type: Article

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