Effects of ability mixing in high school on adulthood earnings: Quasiexperimental evidence from South Korea

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-297

  Kang, Changhui ^a   Park, Cheolsung ^a   Lee, Myoung Jae ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ability grouping; Mixing; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247252413     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-006-0090-y     Document Type: Article

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