The effects of attending selective college tiers in China

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-305

  Loyalka, Prashant ^a   Song, Yingquan ^a   Wei, Jianguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; College selectivity; Higher education; International education; Quasiexperimental design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856354485     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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