Education policy and equality of opportunity

Kyklos

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-308

  Schütz, Gabriela ^a   Ursprung, Heinrich W ^b   Wößmann, Ludger ^c  

^a IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATION POLICY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; STUDENT;

EID: 42449128773     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00402.x     Document Type: Review

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