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The educational consequences of language proficiency for young children

Yao, Yuxin; Ohinata, Asako; Ours, Jan C. van - 2016

This paper studies the educational consequences of language proficiency by investigating the relationship between dialect-speaking and academic performance of 5-6 year old children in the Netherlands. We find that dialect-speaking has a modestly negative effect on boys' language test scores. In...

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Poor vision among China's rural primary school students : prevalence, correlates and consequences

Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Ma, Xiaochen; Congdon, Nathan; … - In: China economic review : an international journal 33 (2015), pp. 247-262

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Minding the Terrazzo Gap between athletes and nonathletes : representativeness, integration, and academic performance at the U.S. Air Force Academy

Payne, Brian C.; Bredthauer, Jeffery S.; Martin, John A.; … - In: Journal of sports economics 17 (2016) 3, pp. 302-320

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External influence as an indicator of scholarly importance

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 62 (2016) 1, pp. 170-195

Although the external influence of scholars has usually been approximated by publication and citation count, the array of scholarly activities is far more extensive. Today, new technologies, in particular Internet search engines, allow more accurate measurement of scholars' influence on societal...

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A relationship between emotional intelligence and Myer Briggs Big Five personality model

Indradevi, R. - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 8 (2015) 4, pp. 361-374

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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …

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El género como variable moderadora de los resultados académicos en la enseñanza universitaria

Pérez-Cárceles, María Concepción; Gómez-Gallego, María - In: Regional and sectoral economic studies : RSES 14 (2014) 3, pp. 55-64

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Social media and academic performance : does the intensity of Facebook activity relate to good grades?

Skiera, Bernd; Hinz, Oliver; Spann, Martin - In: Schmalenbach business review : sbr 67 (2015) 1, pp. 54-72

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Goal-efficacy framework : an examination of domestic and international accounting students' academic performance

Phang, Michelle M. S.; Johl, Shireenjit K.; Cooper, Barry J. - In: Accounting and finance : journal of the Accounting … 54 (2014) 4, pp. 1295-1318

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A literature review of the impact of extracurricular activities participation on students' academic performance

Seow, Poh-Sun; Pan, Gary - In: Journal of education for business 89 (2014) 7, pp. 361-366

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