Intended college enrollment and educational inequality: Do students lack information?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 60, Issue , 2017, Pages 125-141

  Peter, Frauke H ^a   Zambre, Vaishali ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

College enrollment; Educational expectation; Educational inequality; Information deficit; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

BUDGET DEFICIT; HIGHER EDUCATION; INFORMATION; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

GERMANY;

EID: 85030450228     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2017.08.002     Document Type: Article

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