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Can Introducing Single-Sex Education into Low-Performing Schools Improve Academics, Arrests, and Teen Motherhood?

C. Kirabo Jackson
Journal of Human Resources, January 2021, 56 (1) 1-39; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.1.0618-9558R2
C. Kirabo Jackson
Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
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