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Born to be wild? The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy
Denny, Kevin - 2004
This paper models the probability of 15-year-old children missing school or being late. The paper sets out to uncover … the effects of family background and birth order on attendance. Looking at birth order effects allows one to test Sulloway … poor attendance. However their experience of -or attitude- to school has significant effects as has class size, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293861
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The Early Bird gets the Worm? Birth Order Effects in a Dynamic Model of the Family
Gugl, Elisabeth; Welling, Linda - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2008
Birth order effects are found in empirical work, but lack solid theoretical foundations in economics. Our new modeling approach to children provides this. Each child’s needs change as it grows, and births are sequential. Each child has the same genetic make-up and parents do not favor one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839161
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The Early Bird gets the Worm? Birth Order Effects in a Dynamic Model of the Family
Gugl, Elisabeth; Welling, Linda - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2007
Birth order effects are found in empirical work, but lack theoretical foundations. Our new approach to modelling children provides this. Each child has the same genetic make-up and parents do not favour a child based on its birth order. Each child’s needs change as it grows, and births are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801971
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Birth Order and Sibship Sex Composition as Instruments in the Study of Education and Earnings
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Picard, Natalie; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … educational achievements of individuals, as well as many aspects of family background, including birth order, number of sisters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124292
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"If you have a kid that's ready to learn:" : the kindergarten transition experiences of urban, low-income, African-American preschoolers
Jarrett, Robin L.; Coba-Rodriguez, Sarai - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 23 (2019) 3, pp. 229-252
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180268
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The effect of schooling on parental integration
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). Using a regression … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426466
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The effect of schooling on parental integration : evidence from Germany
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Using a regression … discontinuity design around the school enrollment cutoff and an instrumental variable approach I show that children's schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432476
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PROMOTING THE IMAGE OF SCHOOL IN THE RURAL SPACE
Oprea, Miruna - 2017
focus on a series of considerations that belong to the social and family context, when chosing school. … promoting schoold in the rural areas – particularly the Secondary School in Oniceni, Suceava County. In our approach, we will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716439
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Children and Virtual Reality — Some dilemas of Education
Jasminka, Zloković; Metod, Černetič; Olga, Dobrnjič - In: Organizacija 42 (2009) 1, pp. 17-22
Possible responses to the extremely complex and delicate question of the influence that <virtual reality> exercises on the development of a child as a unique personality, on the child's psycho-social development and on the education of a child generally may be provided by serious research of a cohort sequential...</virtual>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009218
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Children and Virtual Reality — Some dilemas of Education
Zloković Jasminka; Metod, ÄŒernetiÄ; Olga, … - In: Organizacija 42 (2009) 1, pp. 17-22
Possible responses to the extremely complex and delicate question of the influence that virtual reality exercises on the development of a child as a unique personality, on the child's psycho-social development and on the education of a child generally may be provided by serious research of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534570