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Values beliefs and economic behaviors : a regional approach

Graça, João Carlos; Lopes, João Carlos; Niza, Cláudia - 2013

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Oh, the Economics You'll Find in Dr. Seuss!

Miller, Ben; Watts, Michael W. - 2009

We provide a list of economic concepts and issues covered in all of the children's books published by Theodor Geisel …

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Gender differences in mathematical performance and the school context: Evidence from Russia

Bessudnov, Alexey; Makarov, Alexey - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

Gender dierences in mathematical performance have been long debated in psychology, economics, and sociology. We contribute to this literature by analyzing a large data set of high school graduates who in 2011 took a standardized mathematical test in Russia (n = 738; 456). We nd no substantial...

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Contextualizing Academic Performance In Russian Schools: School Characteristics, The Composition Of Student Body And Local Deprivation

Yasterbov, Gordey A.; Bessudnov, Alexey R.; Pinskaya, … - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

This study focuses on how social contexts promote disparities in academic performance between Russian high schools. In particular, we investigate how a school’s average Unified State Examination (USE) scores in Russian and mathematics relate to the social composition of its student body, its...

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Children of the crisis : fiscal councils in Portugal, Spain and Ireland

Horvath, Michal - In: Independent fiscal councils : watchdogs or lapdogs?, (pp. 125-133). 2018

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Child poverty and family transfers in southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos (contributor) - 2005

in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

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Intergenerational transmission of education : an alert to empirical implementation

Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010

The intergenerational transmission of education is certainly a problem that continues to challenge most countries. The level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as an alert to researchers undertaking empirical...

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Stunting and wasting in a growing economy : biological living standards in Portugal, 1924-1994

Cermeño, Alexandra L.; Palma, Nuno; Pistola, Renato - 2021

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Family Context and Its Relationship with Parental Involvement in The Education of Secondary School Children

Zakaria, Abd. Razak Bin; Hasim, Zuwati; Salleh, Umi … - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 3 (2013) 4, pp. 1063-1076

This study aimed at investigating the extent parents involvement in educating their secondary school children. The … involvement in education of secondary school children. Multiple regression analysis showed that the component of family context … interest is that this study found that involvement of parents in education of their secondary school children was not the main …

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Tales of Migration without Wage Differentials: Individual, Family, and Community Contexts

Stark, Oded - In: Institutions and Economic Development (2003) 2, pp. 79-92

By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...

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