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Aligning policy and legal frameworks for supporting smallholder farming through public food procurement: The case of home-grown school feeding programmes
Swensson, Luana F. Joppert - 2018
In the past few years, various countries, regions and cities from low-income to high-income economies have been developing a range of food procurement initiatives designed to use the regular demand for food on the part of government entities as a policy instrument targeting broader development...
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The perils of returning to school: New insights into the seasonality of youth suicides
Chandler, Vincent; Heger, Dörte; Wuckel, Christiane - 2019
Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105940
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918294
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Parental health and child schooling
Bratti, Massimiliano; Mendola, Mariapia - 2011
the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278309
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A whole school approach to tackling early school leaving : Policy messages
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Bildung und … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998884
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Child schooling and family size : an economic analysis
De Tray, Dennis N. - 1978
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The effect of state of residence on medical school admissions
Rolph, John E.; Williams, Albert P.; Lee, Carolyn L. - 1978
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000001510
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PROMOTING THE IMAGE OF SCHOOL IN THE RURAL SPACE
Oprea, Miruna - 2017
promoting schoold in the rural areas – particularly the Secondary School in Oniceni, Suceava County. In our approach, we will … focus on a series of considerations that belong to the social and family context, when chosing school. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716439
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Intercultural Education in Schools
Allemann-Ghionda, Cristina - University of Cologne; Deloitte Consulting. Brussels - 2008
"Intercultural Education" is a pedagogic approach aimed at fomenting a tolerant and sensitive attitude to ethnic, cultural and religious differences between individuals. This study examines how Intercultural Education is provided for in the classrooms of selected EU countries, including France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009638561
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Study of the Impact of Comenius Assistantships : Full Report
Maiworm, Friedhelm; Kastner, Heiko; Wenzel, Hartmut - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640961