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Eastern Economic Journal (2007) 33,177–191. doi:10.1057/eej.2007.16

Explaining the Performance Gap between Public and Private School Students

Kevin C Duncan and Jonathan Sandy

  1. 1Colorado State University-Pueblo
  2. 2University of San Diego

Correspondence: Kevin C Duncan, Hasan School of Business, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado 81001. E-mail: www.kevin.duncan@colostate-pueblo.edu.

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