Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela: 1992-2002

Applied Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1991-2005

  Patrinos, Harry Anthony ^a   Sakellariou, Chris ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 33749025013     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500427338     Document Type: Article

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