The effect of school neighborhoods on teachers' career decisions

Whither Opportunity?: Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 377-395

  Boyd, Don ^a   Lankford, Hamp ^a   Loeb, Susanna ^b   Ronfeldt, Matthew ^c   Wyckoff, Jim ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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