Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class-size and time-in-term

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-198

  Corak, Miles ^a   Lauzon, Darren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Educational economics; Human capital; Input output analysis

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; HUMAN CAPITAL; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

EID: 61649091327     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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