Estimating peer effects in Swedish high school using school, teacher, and student fixed effects

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-336

  Sund, Krister ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Economics of education; Peer effects

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DATA SET; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 67349227713     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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