Chapter 11 Does Learning to Add up Add up? The Returns to Schooling in Aggregate Data

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 635-695

  Pritchett, Lant ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education; growth; Mincer; spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049158226     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)01011-7     Document Type: Review

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