Is the effect of national wealth on academic achievement mediated by mass media and computers?

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-151

  Barber, Nigel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Academic success; Computers; Evolutionary social science; Mass media; Math; Reading; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645501590     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: 15523578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397105277602     Document Type: Article

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