The aggregate effectof school choice: Evidence from a two-stage experiment in India

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1011-1066

  Muralidharan, Karthik ^a,b,c   Sundararaman, Venkatesh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab   (United States)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SPILLOVER EFFECT; STUDENT;

INDIA;

EID: 84939505711     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjv013     Document Type: Article

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