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economic conditions and it is frequently argued that reducing income inequalities will mitigate psychosocial risks of children … family income and contribute to later outcomes. To examine these issues, data were drawn from a birth cohort of New Zealand … children born in 1977 and followed to age 30. …
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with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income …
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adult. For many of these children and young people, caring has been shown to have a detrimental effect on their lives. For …-aged children or to use qualitative methods with young people associated with caring projects. In contrast, little is known about … the extent and nature of caring undertaken by younger children. This paper reports findings from a random sample survey of …
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Many studies have examined the effect of life events, education, and income on well-being. Conversely, research … derived from Bourdieu and Social Comparison Theory. Social comparison between adolescents and their parents is suggested to be …
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This paper analyzes the combined effect of school entry-age increase and the introduction of preparatory year (pre-school) on educational achievement using a difference-in-difference specification. Achievement is assessed using the score on national standardized tests across a range of subjects....
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We develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time. Cross-country growth regressions generate a close relationship between educational achievement and GDP growth that is...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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smoking one cigarette per day during adolescence can lower students’ scores on mathematics tests by about 0.08 standard …
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into playing music, we take into account detailed information on the child and its parents, which may determine both the …
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