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Rivalries in U.S. professional soccer
Wooten, Jadrian - In: International journal of sport finance 13 (2018) 2, pp. 105-118
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Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Gershenson, Seth; Jacknowitz, Alison; Brannegan, Andrew - 2015
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from North Carolina, we investigate the relationship between student absences and academic...
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Primary education in India: Prospects of meeting the MDG target
Bhalotra, Sonia; Zamora, Bernarda - 2006
simulations suggest that India will achieve universal attendance, but that primary school completion rates will not exhibit much …
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Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...
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Pre- and within-season attendance forecasting in Major League Baseball: A random forest approach
Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018
This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance … lagged attendance forecast. My empirical results show high variation in team-specific prediction accuracy with respect to …
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Kita-Besuch hängt trotz ausgeweitetem Rechtsanspruch noch immer vom Familienhintergrund ab
Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 38, pp. 825-835
Das Angebot an Plätzen in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Kitas) wurde in den vergangenen zehn Jahren massiv ausgebaut. Seit 2013 gilt der Rechtsanspruch auf einen Betreuungsplatz für Kinder ab dem zweiten Lebensjahr. Damit war teilweise auch die Hoffnung verbunden, dass der sozioökonomische...
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Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso
Nikiema, Pouirkèta Rita - 2017
the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate … Beoog Biiga programme, we find that take-home rations (THRs) increased school attendance for both boys and girls. Moreover …
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The role of specific subjects in education production functions: Evidence from morning classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Cortes, Kalena E.; Bricker, Jesse; Rohlfs, Chris - 2010
classes over the day to measure how the returns to classroom learning vary by course subject, and how much attendance in one …
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Major League Baseball: America’s Recession-Proof Pastime
McDonnell, Mark - 2010
This project is a study which examines how attendance levels in Major League Baseball stadiums have been impacted by … the current recession in the United States which began in October 2007. Research on attendance during past recessions has … shown a strong relationship that during downtrends in the economy, baseball attendance levels generally do not suffer. Using …
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Gründe für unterschiedliche Kita-Nutzung von Kindern unter drei Jahren sind vielfältig
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, Christa Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 87 (2020) 14, pp. 268-275
Obwohl der Anteil von Kindern unter drei Jahren in der Kindertagesbetreuung in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegen ist, bestehen immer noch große Unterschiede in der Inanspruchnahme von Kita-Plätzen: Haben Mütter eine geringere Bildung oder beide Eltern einen Migrationshintergrund, dann...
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