Cities drifting apart: Heterogeneous outcomes of decentralizing public education
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Keywords
Decentralization; public education; inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2016-11-06 (Education)
- NEP-URE-2016-11-06 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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