Educational attainment
Educational attainment: Success to the successful
... wealth attainment, income, and popularity also follow the pattern expected by the STS archetype or Pareto’s law as well for the same ...to educational attainment levels, grades earned by students are ...
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Conflict, Educational Attainment and Structural Transformation: La Violencia in Colombia
... In Column 2 we instead focus on migrants only, and explore whether being born in a violent municipality affects the probability of moving to a neighboring location. It does, but negatively. That is, it is relatively ...
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The influence of educational attainment on convergence in Spanish and Portuguese regions
... The contribution of educational attainment to GRPpc growth in the Iberian regions considered varies according to the determinants considered (see Table 4). Focusing on the initial GRPpc, the estimated ...
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Higher education policy, graduate taxes and wealth distribution
... the seventh and eight rows of Table 1 respectively. Both evidence significantly larger intergenerational correlation in educational attainment in Chile than its benchmarks. In fact Chile’s correlation ranks ...
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Pregnancy and childbirth outcomes among adolescent mothers: A World Health Organization multicountry study
... tus, educational attainment, parity and multiple births, as well as for the capacity of the health facility and the mater- nal mortality rate by country, we found higher risks of eclampsia, puerperal ...
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Corruption, 'ghosts', and education: missing education funds in Mexico
... My initial hypothesis about the effect of teachers and schools was that a larger stock of these resources would attenuate the negative effect of corruption; that it would be more harmful for municipalities with fewer ...
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The Persistence of Gender Differences in Political Interest
... The gender gap in political engagement has been addressed by three main explanations. First, the structural approach argues that di- fferent access to resources explains why some people are more likely to be politically ...
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Evaluating patient values and preferences for thromboprophylaxis decision making during pregnancy: a study protocol
... Methods: We will perform a multi-center cross-sectional interview study in Canada, USA, Norway and Finland. The study population will consist of 100 women with a history of lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or ...
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The association between past sexual abuse and depression in older adults from Colombia
... Colombia has had an internal armed conflict for about 50 years, which has generated violence and forced internal displacement of the rural population migrating to urban areas. 12 The transitioning from rural to urban ...
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Socioeconomic Status and its Impact on Language and Content Attainment in CLIL Contexts
... – Highest education level of the mother: low (38.9%), medium (25.4%) or high (35.7%). – Highest education level of the father: low (41.9%), medium (26%) or high (32.1%). On the other hand, at the start of the research we ...
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Experiences with educational robotic
... Through them, you can explore the area of robotics in an educational manner, coming to join efforts to make school life more challenging, creative and focused on the processes of teaching and learning. The use of ...
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An account of EFL contexts in Spanish schools: methodologies, attainment and new approaches
... Muñoz (2006a: 13-35) carried out a study to test the effect of age on English learning in a school in Catalonia (Spain). Given that the aim of the study was to see if early exposure was a determining factor in the ...
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Contextualising change through a common strategy
... although educational policies and their implementation are the direct responsibility of the institution, it is individuals who have to share its distinct identity and accept its rationale and implications, by ...
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Digital Competency and University Curricula In Search of the Missing Link
... drive educational policy forward and to ensure that citizens have active lives by, for example, allowing them to master tools for learning and training and to have skills for appropriate social relations and for ...
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The effectiveness of teaching based on educational neuroscience strategies on mathematical performance of working children
... Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers JETT, Vol. 10 (1); ISSN: 1989-9572 104 In Iran, the majority of working children are the Afghan children who emigrated from Afghanistan to Iran, due to the war. This group of ...
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Engaging disenfranchised urban youth in science learning
... The reason for this highly demanding proposition is that the youth at risk, like the students at an alternative high-school academic program in Western Canada where the authors taught, are usually quite critical of ...
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Ultimate attainment of Spanish rhotics by native English speaking immigrants to Spain
... Kinsella and Singleton 2014; Stölten, Abrahamsson and Hyltenstam 2015). While it is generally accepted that most L2 learners do not attain native-like levels of proficiency in the L2, especially with respect to ...
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Demand for Child Care and Female Employment in Colombia
... lower educational levels decrease the probability of being employed while higher schooling attainment increases it; (ii) the probability of the mother working increases with child age, especially when the ...
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Intermediated attainment in OTC markets
... the attainment of portfolio goals in an over-the-counter (OTC) market depend on intermediation? To answer this question, we estimate the equivalent of a matching function for the fed funds market, a prominent OTC ...
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E learning in Economics and Business
... In the framework of the different debate fora that took place during the I Workshop on e-learning in Economics and Business, the question of what the main challenges in the near future of higher education would be was ...
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