The effect of school resources on pupil attainment: A multilevel simultaneous equation modelling approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 801-824

  Steele, Fiona ^a   Vignoles, Anna ^b   Jenkins, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education production function; Multilevel simultaneous equation model; School resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250316210     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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