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  1. The Esmée Fairbairn Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Keith G. Lumsden & Charles Ritchie

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The research reported here was supported by National Science Foundation Grant EC-37762 to the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, and by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Contract HEW-05-71-169 to the Esmée Fairbairn Economics Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. The authors are indebted to Alexander Scott and Desmond Tierney (The Esmée Fairbairn Economics Research Centre), Leslie Wagner (The Open University), Dean T.. Jamison (Educational Testing Service), and Peter Spain (Stanford University) for comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Lumsden, K.G., Ritchie, C. The Open University: A survey and economic analysis. Instr Sci 4, 237–291 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00053877

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