Estimating treatment effects from contaminated multiperiod education experiments: The dynamic impacts of class size reductions

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-42

  Ding, Weili ^a   Lehrer, Steven F ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 77955155839     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.2009.11453     Document Type: Article

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