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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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Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe

Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...

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