Education and Family Background. Mechanisms and Policies

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 201-247

  Björklund, Anders ^a   Salvanes, Kjell G ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Education; Education reform; Intergenerational mobility; Sibling correlations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953676866     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53429-3.00003-X     Document Type: Book

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