Education and civic outcomes in Italy

Public Finance Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-446

  Pietro, Giorgio Di ^a   Delprato, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic outcomes; Education; Endogeneity bias; Unobserved factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349336982     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142109332051     Document Type: Article

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