The declining relative importance of ability in predicting educational attainment

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 335-353

  Galindo Rueda, Fernando ^a   Vignoles, Anna ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 19844380032     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.xl.2.335     Document Type: Article

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