Home versus school learning: A new approach to estimating the effect of class size on achievement

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 375-394

  Lindahl, Mikael ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Class size; Difference in differences; Summer and school year learning; Value added models

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LEARNING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 24644511748     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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