Does Schooling Increase or Reduce Social Inequality?

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 443-470

  Raudenbush, Stephen W ^a   Eschmann, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

causal inference; schooling; social inequality; stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939615721     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043406     Document Type: Article

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