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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 …
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Inititaing Public Debate on Reforms in Higher Education
Pitroda, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2007
Idea on National Knowledge Commission, what it is and what are they trying to accomplish, ask for the audience support, understanding and also talk about the need for major reforms in University education. [Convocation Address at University of Mumbai].
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838234
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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.
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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 …
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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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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864