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affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …
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This paper estimates the effects of birth order on education. This paper is the first to control for the mother’s age at first birth. While previous studies find that earlier-born children are better off, this paper finds no effects.
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This paper investigates the effects of sibship size, birth order and sibling sex composition on children’s school … of sibship size on school enrollment. However, there is evidence for a parabolic impact of birth-order where middle …
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activity or at least combining school with work rather than schooling only. The results confirm that later-born children are … more likely to be in school than their earlier-born counterparts. …
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Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational … for a number of individual characteristics and school fixed effects. Secondly, in order to attenuate the impact of … suggest that being a victim of school bullying has a considerable negative effect on student performance at both the fourth …
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impossible to provide good didactics on what is inherently illogical. Basic observations: We would presume that school … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life … of pupils and students in their formative years. Basic analysis: This situation arises not because it is only school math …
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The development of a society is virtually dependent upon the quality of human resources both male and female, the changing pattern of economic and social development of world societies irrespective of their level of development, necessitates and equal advancement of both the social segments. The...
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According to the demonstration effect theory, parents make intergenerational transfers to their elders in order to elicit a symmetric future behavior from their children. In this paper we show that upstream transfers are expected to increase with low returns from alternative financial assets and...
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, family composition, health and religion over subjective well-being in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay …
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social role of the family, as this role was taken over by other institutions in several fields (market, State, school, and so … took steps in this area. Social mentality on the level of the community, family, church, or school, was not accepted and … is also proved by the analysis of the marital behaviour). The major events in the family life, such as baptism, marriage …
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