States' Potential Enrollment of Adult Students: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 555-571

  Titus, Marvin A ^a   Pusser, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult enrollment; State higher education policy; Stochastic frontier analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960598664     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-010-9211-2     Document Type: Article

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