The role of family, school, and community characteristics in inequality in education and labor-market outcomes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 339-358

  Altonji, Joseph G ^a,b   Mansfield, Richard K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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