Inefficient competition in shadow-education investment
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Shadow education; Contest; Social inefficiency; Returns to education;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- P5 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems
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