The effects of monitoring and competition on public education outputs: A stochastic frontier approach

Public Finance Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-26

  Kang, Byung Goo ^a   Greene, Kenneth V ^b  

^a Korea Labor Institute   (South Korea)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 20144385624     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109114210203000101     Document Type: Article

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