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UNINA9910777769003321 |
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Titolo |
Schools and the equal opportunity problem / / edited by Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-29221-1 |
1-282-09897-7 |
9786612098970 |
0-262-28638-6 |
1-4294-7969-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WoessmannLudger |
PetersonPaul E |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Educational equalization - Europe |
Educational equalization - United States |
Educational change - Europe |
Educational change - United States |
Equality - Europe |
Equality - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; I The Problem; 1 Introduction: Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem; 2 Education Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in Britain; 3 Education and Earnings over the Life Cycle: Longitudinal Age-Earnings Profiles from Sweden; II Solutions A: Change the Peer Group?; 4 Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools; 5 The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in UK Secondary Schools; 6 The Optimal Timing of School Tracking: A General Model with Calibration for Germany; III Solutions B: Refocus Resources? |
7 Some U.S. Evidence on How the Distribution of Educational Outcomes Can Be Changed 8 The Effectiveness of Human-Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands; 9 Equalizing Opportunity for Racial and Socioeconomic Groups in the United States through |
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