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Education Reforms and Adult Skills : Evidence from Estonia

Byrne, Kieran - 2019

education reforms on literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills among adults by comparing improvements in PIAAC performance …

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The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality

Nielsen, Eric Reed - 2015

between youth from high- and low-income households. Commonly-employed, cardinal methods suggest that this "income …. In fact, any weighting scheme that places more value on higher test scores must conclude that the reading income …-achievement gap decreased between these two surveys. The situation for math achievement is more complex, but low-income students in …

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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being : Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects of Socioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - 2008

Parental involvement in their children's lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is valued. However, what happens in socio-economically...

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Education, Age and Skills : An Analysis Using the PIAAC Survey

Calero, Jorge; Murillo Huertas, Inés P.; Raymond, Josep - 2016

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of adult skills, as captured by cognitive competencies assessed in the PIAAC, across age cohorts, explicitly taking into account that the quality of schooling might change from one cohort to another. We estimate a model that relates numeracy...

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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

Heckman, James J. - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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The Impact of Pre-School on Adolescents' Outcomes : Evidence from a Recent English Cohort

Apps, Patricia F. - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at nursery school and children's outcomes in adolescence. In particular, we are interested in child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 and 16, intentions towards tertiary education, economic activity in early adulthood, and in a group...

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"Teaching to teach" literacy

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...

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When behavioral barriers are too high or low : how timing matters for parenting interventions

Cortes, Kalena E.; Fricke, Hans; Loeb, Susanna; Song, … - 2019

The time children spend with their parents affects their development. Parenting programs can help parents use that time more effectively. Text-messaged-based parenting curricula have proven an effective means of supporting positive parenting practices by providing easy and fun activities that...

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Prussia disaggregated : the demography of its universe of localities in 1871

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020

We provide, for the ﬁrst time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and group segregation by location type (town, village, and manor). We ﬁnd that Jews live...

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Les inégalités provinciales aux tests internationaux-nationaux de littéracie : Québec, Ontario et autres provinces canadiennes 2000-2018

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2020 - Version révisée

This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...

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