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Estimates of the returns to schooling in Taiwan: evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Junchao ZhangThe Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tachikawa, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 533-538 | Published online: 04 Jul 2019

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