School district size and student performance

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-201

  Driscoll, Donna ^a   Halcoussis, Dennis ^a   Svorny, Shirley ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Educational economics

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT;

EID: 0037399521     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00002-X     Document Type: Article

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