Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Postwar Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
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- David Card & Thomas Lemieux, 2000. "Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?," NBER Working Papers 7658, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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