Efficient provision of high-quality early childhood education: Does the private sector or public sector do it best?

CESifo DICE Report

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 15-20

  Blau, David ^a   Currie, Janet ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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