While problems in the housing system in Ireland have been under the spotlight for the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the experience of children and to the consequences of housing issues for child development. International research has highlighted a range of effects of...

Das Buch bietet eine profunde Einführung in das Phänomen Armut in Deutschland. Der begrifflichen Klärung folgt zunächst der Blick auf die Statistik. Auf dieser Basis werden die individuellen von Armut geprägten Lebenslagen in Deutschland beschrieben. Besonders eingegangen wird auf die...

This study seeks to explain country differences in the performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Hypotheses on the relationship between, on one hand, performance at the Olympiads and, on the other, population size and dynamics, economic resources, human capital, schooling quantity...