When to promote, and when to avoid, a population perspective

Demography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 763-784

  Duncan, Greg J ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Education ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 59849103913     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0031     Document Type: Article

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