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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
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period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
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workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among … workers' level of education and a large set of organizational practices aggregated into three domains: decentralization … education: no post-compulsory education, upper-secondary vocational education and train- ing, tertiary vocational education, and …
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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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, Filipino males were somewhat more educated than females. Now the males are lagging behind the females and the education gender … paper argues that today gender equality advocacy should go beyond the stereo-typical focus on girls' education and pay more … attention to issues that are hurting boys’ education. Failure to pursue win-win strategies to address gender bias in education …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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differ between women with college and postgraduate education. Likewise, black-white fertility differentials among women with … college and post-graduate education, in particular among recent birth cohorts, have not yet been addressed in the literature … college and post-graduate education for birth cohorts 1931-1980. Our findings show a significant postponement of the first …
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