Education systems and gender inequalities in educational attainment

Education Systems and Inequalities: International Comparisons

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 159-184

  Hadjar, Andreas ^a   Buchmann, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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