Poverty, residential mobility, and student transiency within a rural New York school district

Rural Sociology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-231

  Schafft, Kai A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; INCOME; POVERTY; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; RURAL SOCIETY; STUDENT;

EID: 33745443753     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/003601106777789710     Document Type: Article

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