When do children read books?

Education Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 313-328

  van Ours, Jan C ^a,b,c,d  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Books; Program for International Student Assessment data; Reading

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EDUCATION; OECD; STUDENT;

EID: 55949132082     PISSN: 09645292     EISSN: 14695782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09645290801976902     Document Type: Article

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