Competition between Private and Public Schools, Vouchers, and Peer-Group Effects

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-62

  Epple, Dennis ^a   Romano, Richard E ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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