Education costs and institutional structure

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 327-345

  Landon, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costs; Resource allocation; Teacher salaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039183644     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0272-7757(98)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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