Getting inside the "Black Box" of Head Start quality: What matters and what doesn't

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-99

  Currie, Janet ^a   Neidell, Matthew ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Expenditures

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPENDITURE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT;

EID: 33845884050     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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