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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills. It focuses on children 7 months old to 6 … scored at -0.13 standard deviations (SD) in language in the distribution of females. In addition, males scored at -0.20 SD in …
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by business leaders, policy makers and scholars around the world. Frugal products, services and technologies strive to … resources. It is expected that frugal solutions will be increasingly necessary in both the developed and developing world to … acceptance in other corners of the world and why they contribute to India's soft power on a global stage. We argue that frugal …
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choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations … the important assumption that multilingualism and the choice of the language (even in a street sign) is an individual and …
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comparability, we use the same measure of receptive language ability for all five countries. We find important differences in …
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In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...
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This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language … common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or … equilibria where language is not used in its ordinary sense. The paper also proposes a refinement by which the sender selects …
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