A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case
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Education; Economic modelling; Multivariate ordered probit;All these keywords.
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- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
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