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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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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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Longitudinal indicators of the social context of families: beyond the snapshot

Moore, Kristin; Vandivere, Sharon - In: Social Indicators Research 83 (2007) 1, pp. 55-85

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Saving in childhood and adolescence: Insights from developmental psychology

Otto, Annette - In: Economics of Education Review 33 (2013) C, pp. 8-18

economic world of children, adolescents, and adults as well as to existing theories of saving. Children's and adolescents …

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Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: The role of children

Liu, Guangya; Dupre, Matthew E.; Gu, Danan; Mair, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 10, pp. 1874-1882

population and a short history of institutional care. This article investigates the role of children in differences in … children, proximity, and visits) and strengthened for the three measures of psychological well-being after adjustments for …

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Socio-Economics as an Urgent Basis of Interdisciplinary Integration (On the Book by M. A. Shabanova "Socio-Economics")

T. Zaslavskaya. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 5 (2013)

The necessity of interdisciplinary integration of social sciences is recently being discussed more and more, but its grounds remain unclear. Using the example of a new version of socio-economics as a branch of science and an academic subject born as a reaction to public practice challenges, the...

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The Influence of Dining Location on Adult Overweight and Obesity in Urban China

Wahl, Thomas I. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

Chinese have been experiencing dramatic changes in their body weight in the last ten years. Food service sector is believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with...

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Proceedings of a workshop, Lengshuitan, Hunan Province, Peoples' Republic of China, 22-25 April 1991: Forages on Red Soils in China

MacLeod, Donald A.; Scott, James M. - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 1991

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Socio-economic determinants of keeping goats and sheep by rural people in southern Benin

Dossa, Luc; Rischkowsky, Barbara; Birner, Regina; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 4, pp. 581-592

An understanding of factors influencing the decision of rural people to keep sheep and/or goats is crucial when formulating technologies and policies that support village-based small ruminant production. The knowledge of such factors will also improve assessment of impact intervention strategies...

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