The inheritance of educational inequality: International comparisons and fifty-year trends

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Hertz, Tom ^a   Selcuk, Sibel ^a   Jayasundera, Tamara ^b   Smiths, Nicole ^a   Piraino, Patrizio ^a   Verashchagina, Alina ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Educational persistence; Intergenerational mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949132207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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