Students today, teachers tomorrow: Identifying constraints on the provision of education

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-14

  Andrabi, Tahir ^a   Das, Jishnu ^b   Khwaja, Asim Ijaz ^c  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd in; Educational markets; Intertemporal externalities' public investments; Teacher labor supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874417420     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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