How do school peers influence student educational outcomes? theory and evidence from economics and other social sciences

Teachers College Record

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1163-1197

  Harris, Douglas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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