If you pay peanuts do you get monkeys? A cross-country analysis of teacher pay and pupil performance

Economic Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 65, 2011, Pages 5-55

  Dolton, Peter ^a   Marcenaro Gutierrez, Oscar D ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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OECD; PANEL DATA;

EID: 78651298143     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2010.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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