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Hemispheric dominance and language proficiency levels in the four macro skills of Western Mindanao State university college students

Tendero, Julieta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

students’ HD would have a significant correlation a) with their EP scores in listening, speaking, reading and writing, b) with … standardized HD Test, the standardized Listening and Reading Comprehension Tests, the researcher-made Speaking and Writing Skill … left-brained (74.6%); 2) that the students were “good” in speaking, “fair” in listening and writing skills but “ poor” in …

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Human Deprivation Index: A Measure of Multidimensional Poverty

Sivakumar, Marimuthu; Sarvalingam, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also with insufficient outcomes with respect to health, nutrition, and literacy and deficient social relations, insecurity, and low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a...

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Recall error and recall bias in life course epidemiology

Tampubolon, Gindo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

OBJECTIVES I propose a distinction between recall error and recall bias and examine the the effect of childhood financial hardship on adult health, subject to such recall problems. Studying the effect of childhood hardship on adult health is a prototypical investigation in life course studies...

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Time use during the life course in the USA, Norway, and the Netherlands: a HAPC-analysis

Versantvoort, Maroesjka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyses life course variations by means of Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort-modelling (HAPC) of time use data for thee welfare states: the USA, Norway, and the Netherlands. By means of analyzing time use data insight is gained in the (relative) importance of various life spheres as...

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Studying time use variations in 18 countries applying a life course perspective

Versantvoort, Maroesjka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

To gain insight in variations in life courses during last decades, and the factors underlying these variations, time use data seem suited. By means of analyzing time use data insight is gained in the (relative) importance of various life spheres as paid work, household work, volunteer aid, care,...

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Is Large More Effective than Small is Beautiful? Size and Performance of Primary Schools in Poland

Herczynski, Jan; Herbst, Mikolaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

We investigate the size-related features of the production function of Polish primary schools. The interplay of small schools ineffectiveness and of organizational and social difficulties appearing in large schools implies that the relationship between school size and student achievement is...

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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal

Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...

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Does bullying reduce educational achievement? An evaluation using matching estimators

Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (2006-PIRLS) and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (2007-TIMSS), we investigate the impact of being a victim of school bullying on educational achievement for Italian students enrolled at the fourth and...

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Quasi-Experimental Estimates of Class Size Effect in Primary Schools in Poland

Jakubowski, Maciej; Sakowski, Pawel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper we analyze class size effects in the case of primary schools in Poland. We use two empirical strategies to avoid endogeneity bias. First, we use average class size in a grade as an instrumental variable for actual class size. This allows us to control for within school selection of...

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Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance

Levels, Mark; Dronkers, Jaap Dronkers; Kraaykamp, Gerbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper explores the extent to which macro-level characteristics of destination countries, origin countries and immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 PISA survey, we performed analyses on the mathematical...

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