Are measured school effects just sorting?. Causality and correlation in the National Education Longitudinal Survey

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 460-470

  Levine, David I ^a   Painter, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human capital; Neighborhood effects; Peer effects; School effects

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT;

EID: 44049086562     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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