Marketing schools: Consumer goods and competitive incentives for consumer information

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 118-141

  Lubienski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Charter schools; Competition; Family information; School choice; School marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148899754     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124507303994     Document Type: Article

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