Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with Short Case Examples from the Academic and Popular Press

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 480-486

  Becker, William E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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