Identifying peer effects in student academic achievement by spatial autoregressive models with group unobservables

Journal of Labor Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 825-860

  Lin, Xu ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957919739     PISSN: 0734306X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653506     Document Type: Article

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