Neighbourhood and family effects in educational progress

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-31

  Jensen, Ben ^a   Seltzer, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034037680     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00133     Document Type: Article

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