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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - eSocialSciences - 2011
‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323719
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Aspirations, Segregation and Occupational Choice
Mookherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2008
locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341735
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Book Review: Visualizing Children: Images and Imagination
Lerner, Loren - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321473
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Mortality, the Family and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Gillespie, Thomas; Preston, Samuel - eSocialSciences - 2011
, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323704
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Annual Status of Education Report (Rural) 2009 (Provisional)
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2010
The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512483
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Making the Case for Early Care and Education: A Message Development Guide for Advocates
Dorfman, Lori; Woodruff, Katie; Herbert, Sonja; Ervice, Joel - eSocialSciences - 2009
care and education policy goals. It is believed that young children, their families, and the community at large will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003755
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Right To Education Bill, 2005
Pratham, Pratham - eSocialSciences - 2007
reposibility of the state, reponsibility of the schools to give education, entry age, reponsibility of parents in giving education … to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528396
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Fighting Junk Food Marketing to Kids
BMSG, Berkeley Media Studies Group - eSocialSciences - 2010
markets. This paper analysis the effect of marketing strategies of such companies on young children. It also suggests some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752776
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Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting Quality
Turney, Kristin; Wildeman, Christopher - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
, quantitative research tends to consider effects on child wellbeing and generally concludes paternal incarceration harms children …’ relationships with their children’s mothers. Effects on mothers’ parenting, however, are more inconsistent, as recent paternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149818
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Child Wellbeing in Two-Parent Families: How Do Characteristics and Relationships Matter?
Berger, Lawrence M.; McLanahan, Sara S. - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2011
characteristics, as well as mother-father and parent-child relationships, with regard to differences in wellbeing for children living … differences in returns to (effects of) these characteristics and behaviors for children in the two family types. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149831