Children's educational progress: Partitioning family, school and area effects

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 657-682

  Rasbash, Jon ^a   Leckie, George ^a   Pillinger, Rebecca ^a   Jenkins, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural genetics; Child development; Cross classified model; Multilevel model; School effectiveness; Twins; Value added model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954110591     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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