Determinants of school performance among Quechua children in the Peruvian Andes

International Review of Education

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-43

  Jacoby, Enrique ^a,b   Cueto, Santiago ^b,c,d,e   Pollitt, Ernesto ^e,f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN NUTRICIONAL   (Peru)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GRADE ^*  (Peru)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; PRIMARY EDUCATION;

PERU;

EID: 0033385812     PISSN: 00208566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003521804362     Document Type: Article

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