A Model of Vertically Differentiated Education

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-69

  Effinger, Matthias R ^a   Polborn, Mattias K ^b  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Education; Externalities; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347666065     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231211     Document Type: Article

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