Loafing or learning? - The demand for informal education

European Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-98

  Fahr, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Censored LAD; Household production; Informal education; Lifelong learning; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LEARNING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 5444274471     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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