Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison based on a multivariate ordered probit model of educational attainment

Labour Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-251

  Lauer, Charlotte ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Educational attainment; Multivariate ordered probit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037382037     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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