Timing of school tracking as a determinant of intergenerational transmission of education

Economics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-97

  Bauer, Philipp ^a   Riphahn, Regina T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ability tracking; Educational mobility; Intergenerational transmission of education; Segregation; Streaming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645746430     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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