On the distributional impact of public education: Evidence from Greece

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 439-452

  Tsakloglou, Panos ^a   Antoninis, Manos ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greece; Public education and redistribution

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; HIGHER EDUCATION; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

GREECE;

EID: 0032832134     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7757(99)00018-7     Document Type: Article

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