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Hanushek, E.A. (2008). The Economic Benefits of Improved Teacher Quality. In: Soguel, N.C., Jaccard, P. (eds) Governance and Performance of Education Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6446-3_6

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