Do Students Benefit from Attending Better Schools? Evidence from Rule-based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 549, 2010, Pages 1399-1429

  Kirabo Jackson, C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 78649425768     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02371.x     Document Type: Article

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