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Ideas and Education: Level or Growth Effects and Their Implications for Australia

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  • Steve Dowrick, 2004. "Ideas and Education: Level or Growth Effects and Their Implications for Australia," NBER Chapters, in: Growth and Productivity in East Asia, pages 9-40, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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