The challenges of finding causal links between family educational practices and schooling outcomes

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 465-482

  Furstenberg, Frank F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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