Public education financing trends and the Gray Peril hypothesis

Growth and Change

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 619-648

  Lambert, Dayton M ^a   Clark, Christopher D ^a   Wilcox, Michael D ^a   Park, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION MIGRATION; PUBLIC SERVICE; RETIREMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71649099641     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2009.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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