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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cultural bias in essay topics on non-native speaker (NNS) undergraduate writing performance. To do this, this study uses the essay subsection of Florida's College Level Academic Skills Test (CLAST). Motivation for this study came from:...
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, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …
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Quality education is a key determinant for ASEAN's aspiration to be a single market and production base and to attract … foreign investment. However, the region is characterized by an education divide in terms of quality and output, and this is … likely to increase in the post-COVID-19 period. A simulation, modeling a productivity increase in the education sector …
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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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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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