Towards the equality of educational opportunity in the province of Buenos Aires

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 583-596

  Mongan, Juan Carlos ^a   Santin, Daniel ^b   Valiño, Aurelia ^b  

^a Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational production function; Equality of educational opportunity; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958769911     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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