To segregate or to integrate: Education politics and democracy

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 597-628

  De La Croix, David ^a   Doepke, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; EXPENDITURE; LOW INCOME POPULATION; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64149089813     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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