Identifying peer achievement spillovers: Implications for desegregation and the achievement gap

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-124

  Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley ^a  

^a CHRIST S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desegregation; Endogenous peer effects; Peer achievement spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883339285     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE93     Document Type: Article

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