Chapter 22 Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1327-1368

  Nechyba, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NBER ^*

Author keywords

peer effects; peers; school competition; segregation; sorting; vouchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649566265     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02022-8     Document Type: Review

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