You get what you pay for: Incentives and selection in the education system

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 546, 2010, Pages

  Dohmen, Thomas ^a   Falk, Armin ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECIPROCITY; RISK FACTOR; TEACHING;

EID: 77955168426     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02376.x     Document Type: Article

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