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Neighborhood Characteristics, Parenting, and Children’s Safety
McDonell, James - In: Social Indicators Research 83 (2007) 1, pp. 177-199
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K to 12: The Key to Quality Education?
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
The continuous deterioration of the quality of education in the Philippines has prompted the DepEd to push for the implementation of the K to 12 program, which entails the institutionalization of kindergarten and the addition of two more years of high school in the basic education cycle. The...
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India’s Food Security Bill: A Waste or Win for the Hungry?
Trethewie, Sally - eSocialSciences - 2012
Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indian Parliament is expected to pass this month alleviate the country’s food...
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J - eSocialSciences - 2012
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
-term parental welfare measure. We find there is a substantial intergenerational mobility away from poverty among children from poor … households. However, the risk of continuing to live in poverty as adults is 35 percentage points higher for children from … chronically poor households than for children from households which are not chronically poor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363335
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363555
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Destined for Destitution : Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Indonesia
Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
-term parental welfare measure. We find there is a substantial intergenerational mobility away from poverty among children from poor … households. However, the risk of continuing to live in poverty as adults is 35 percentage points higher for children from … chronically poor households than for children from households which are not chronically poor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363632
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THE IMPACT OF THE 21ST CENTURY FOOD MARKETING ON CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOUR
Mihaela, Tarcza Teodora; Elena, Olar Ana - - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 786-792
This paper aims to raise a question mark regarding children's food habits in the last decades in Romania, and how … globalization, marketing and advertising influenced and changed our old romanian food prefferences. We will highlight that children …, and then copying their behaviour, and acting like them. So, they have the idea that they will gain their parents' love and …
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Parents, Children and Sense of Control
Watson, Dorothy - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2011
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