Educational disparities across regions: A multilevel analysis for Italy and Spain

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1079-1102

  Agasisti, Tommaso ^b   Cordero Ferrera, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross country comparison; Education; Federalism; Regional divergences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885852793     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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