Chapter 13 Using Wages to Infer School Quality

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 813-864

  Speakman, Robert ^a   Welch, Finis ^a,b  

^a Welch Consulting   (United States)

^b Unicon Research Corporation

Author keywords

returns to education; school quality; wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649359707     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02013-7     Document Type: Review

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