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Research ArticleIII. Policy Interventions: Incentives, Controls, and Metrics
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The Promises and Pitfalls of Measuring Community College Quality

Michal Kurlaender, Scott Carrell, Jacob Jackson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2016, 2 (1) 174-190; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.08
Michal Kurlaender
aAssociate professor of education at the University of California, Davis
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bAssociate professor of economics at the University of California, Davis
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Jacob Jackson
cResearch fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California
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Michal Kurlaender, Scott Carrell, Jacob Jackson
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