Social ties within school classes: The roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 373-391

  Soetevent, Adriaan R ^a   Kooreman, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FAMILY STRUCTURE; GENDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 31744441295     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/gri022     Document Type: Article

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