Family income and children's education: Using the Norwegian oil boom as a natural experiment

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-129

  Løken, Katrine V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Income and education; Instrumental variables; Mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549100430     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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