The effects of secondary school quality on the distribution of earnings.
A number of researchers have investigated the effects of school quality on average earnings in the postschooling years. In this article we broaden the discussion to investigate whether school quality has a measurable impact at other points in the conditional earnings distribution. We find that in sp...
| Published in: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 160 - 171 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
April 2002
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