School Reform, School Size, and Student Achievement
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by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Education, when all three authors were at the University of Oregon. The authors would like to thank W.W. Charters for valuable comments on an earlier draft.
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