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Credible Enforcement of Compulsory Schooling by Linking Welfare Payments to School Attendance: Lessons from Australia’s Northern Territory

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  • Kyle Peyton

    (Department of Political Science, Yale University; and Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne)

  • Moshe Justman

    (BGU)

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  • Kyle Peyton & Moshe Justman, 2015. "Credible Enforcement of Compulsory Schooling by Linking Welfare Payments to School Attendance: Lessons from Australia’s Northern Territory," Working Papers 1512, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
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