The Returns to School Quality: College Choice and Earnings

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 475-503

  Strayer, Wayne ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036059232     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339674     Document Type: Review

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