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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Postwar Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?

In: Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis

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David Card
Thomas Lemieux

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This chapter was published in: David Card & Thomas Lemieux Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis, , pages 439-482, 2001.

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Jonathan Gruber, 2001. "Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number grub01-1.
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