Short-run impacts of accountability on school quality

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 119-147

  Rockoff, Jonah ^a   Turner, Lesley J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 85017162638     PISSN: 19457731     EISSN: 1945774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/pol.2.4.119     Document Type: Article

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