Beyond Private Gain: The Public Benefits of Higher Education

Springer International Handbooks of Education

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 293-308

  Bloom, David E ^a   Hartley, Matthew ^b   Rosovsky, Henry ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Current Population Survey; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; High Education; High Education Policy; Public Subsidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85157766290     PISSN: 21971951     EISSN: 2197196X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4012-2_15     Document Type: Chapter

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