High School Dropouts: A Closer Examination of School Effects

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 209-222

  McNeal Jr , Ralph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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