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Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010

Erica Frankenberg, Christopher S. Fowler, Sarah Asson, Ruth Krebs Buck
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2023, 9 (2) 75-103; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.04
Erica Frankenberg
aProfessor of education and demography at Pennsylvania State University, United States
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Christopher S. Fowler
bAssociate professor of geography and demography at Pennsylvania State University, United States
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Sarah Asson
cPhD candidate in educational leadership at Pennsylvania State University, United States
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Ruth Krebs Buck
dPhD student in geography at Pennsylvania State University, United States
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Erica Frankenberg, Christopher S. Fowler, Sarah Asson, Ruth Krebs Buck
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Feb 2023, 9 (2) 75-103; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.04

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Erica Frankenberg, Christopher S. Fowler, Sarah Asson, Ruth Krebs Buck
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