The NELS curve: Replicating The Bell Curve analyses with the national education longitudinal study

Industrial Relations

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 364-406

  Levine, David I ^a   Painter, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; FERTILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032843593     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0019-8676.00133     Document Type: Article

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