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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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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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In international comparative studies on academic achievement, the distinction between private government-dependent schools and private-independent schools has been proven particularly important for understanding the differences in the effectiveness of the private and public school sectors....
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immigrant communities can explain differences in the educational achievement of immigrant children. Using data from the 2003 …, origin countries and communities also affect the educational performance of immigrant children. We show that the better … educational performance of immigrant children in traditional immigrant receiving countries can be explained by strict immigration …
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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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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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Children accompanying their migrant parents for seasonal employment are the most “at risk” group of all in terms of … children. The socio-economic condition of the migrant workers and their children in the kilns, the problems faced by these … migrant children in accessing educational facilities, and the incidence of child labour have been explored. Effectiveness of …
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similar experiment with preschool children to assess their attitudes toward risk and found the children, like the monkeys, to … that though emotional states and predetermined prenatal testosterone can influence children’s preferences toward risk …
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This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a … sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It will provide analysis of ethnic minority children’s welfares including … children’s welfares improved overtime, their welfare remain very low compared with Kinh children. …
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. Female’s labour force participation rises with increasing level of education. Presence of children in early age groups …
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