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Sorting, Education and Inequality / Raquel Fernandez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernandez, Raquel.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8101.
- NBER working paper series no. w8101
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyzes the efficiency and welfare properties of these in static and dynamic frameworks.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2001.
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