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Technology and young children : bridging the communication-generation gap

Allen, Lee (contributor); Blake, Sally (contributor); … - 2012

1. The impact of technology on early childhood education: where the child things are? adults, children, digital … monsters and the spaces in between / Andrew Neil Gibbons -- 2. Enculturation of young children and technology / Alexandru … Spatariu and Susan Bell -- 3. Children's power for learning in the age of technology / Julie McLeod, Lin Lin and Sheri Vasinda …

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Child development and the use of technology : perspectives, applications and experiences

Allen, Lee (contributor); Blake, Sally (contributor); … - 2012

"This book addresses major issues regarding technology for young children, providing a holistic portrait of technology …1. Socrates and Descartes meet the E*Trade baby: the impact of early technology on children's developing beliefs about … knowledge and knowing / Denise L. Winsor and Sally Blake -- 2. The epistemology of young children / Denise L. Winsor -- 3 …

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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?

Chevalier, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use several estimates including the Generalised …

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Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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The Knowledge Lift: The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Mother’s Education and Birth Weight

Chevalier, Arnaud; Vincent O’Sullivan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...

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