The indigenous test score gap in Bolivia and Chile

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 157-190

  McEwan, Patrick J ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANGUAGE;

BOLIVIA; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12344315924     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423257     Document Type: Article

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