Heterogeneity, Stratification, and Growth: Macroeconomic Implications of Community Structure and School Finance

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 584-609

  Bénabou, Roland ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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