Maternal schooling and children's relative inequalities in developmental outcomes: Evidence from the 1947 school leaving age reform in Britain

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 445-461

  Sabates, Ricardo ^a   Duckworth, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955603921     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054981003775277     Document Type: Article

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