Friendships and Favouritism on the Schoolground - A Framed Field Experiment

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 557, 2011, Pages 1228-1251

  Belot, Michèle ^a   van de Ven, Jeroen ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 83055188196     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02461.x     Document Type: Article

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