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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131034
Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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resources for schooling from early years through to adolescence. Recent research has looked at how parents respond to children …Many countries around the world are making substantial and increasing public investments in children by providing … finds that parents reduce their own efforts as schooling improves, dampening the efficiency of government expenditure …
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Over recent decades, Western countries have admitted many immigrants from non-traditional regions (e.g. Philippines, India, China), which has coincided with poor economic integration. Language proficiency is an important determinant of economic integration; in addition to being a component of...
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education, one essential aspect is that “good” peers can potentially improve students’ academic achievement, career choices, or …
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predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future … under-enroll their children. …
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As global migration flows increase, so do the number of migrant students in host country schools. Yet migrants … migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on language …
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Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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