This paper examines differences in educational attainment between natives and children of immigrants to Canada. We introduce two definitions of secondgeneration immigrants: The first considers all children with at least one immigrant parent to be second-generation immigrants, while the second definition requires that both parents were foreign-born. In the data, regardless of which definition we...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household such that families with two or more children experienced a substantial increase in their incomes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult cohort...

Previous scholars have examined the use of educational technology as a strategy for improving student outcomes and skills. Generally, past studies of technology have focused on devices such as computers and cellphones or word processing and web-based software. Students have reported positive perceptions of educational technology as it relates to their learning, involvement and connectedness, to...

This study reviews the effect of two teaching methods including the problem solving and E 5 on the fifth grade elementary school students' educational progress in the experimental sciences course in Dezful city during the years 89-90. This is an applied research and its method is quasi-experimental. The research has pretest posttest plan with the experimental group 1 and 2. The Statistic Popula...

This paper examines the phenomenon of spelling pronunciation in Ghanaian English and shows that it has become one of the features of pronunciation that have diverged from „RP‟ (Received Pronunciation), the standard norm of English language proficiency that is taught to Ghanaians. The empirical investigation of spelling pronunciation was a selection of 50 words of English based on observation of...

We investigated the role of common genetic variation in educational attainment and household income. We used data from 5,458 participants of the National Child Development Study to estimate: 1) the associations of rs9320913, rs11584700 and rs4851266 and socioeconomic position and educational phenotypes; and 2) the univariate chip-heritability of each phenotype, and the genetic correlation betwe...

BACKGROUND Individuals with lower socioeconomic status are at increased risk of involuntary exit from paid employment. To give sound advice for primary prevention in the workforce, insight is needed into the role of mediating factors between socioeconomic status and labour force participation. Therefore, it is aimed to investigate the influence of health status, lifestyle-related factors and wo...

BACKGROUND The life course approach emphasises the contribution of circumstances in childhood and youth to adult health inequalities. However, there is still a lot to know of the contribution of living conditions in childhood and youth to adult health inequalities and how later environmental and behavioural factors are connected with the effects of earlier circumstances. This study aims to asse...