BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the average prevalence of children across the nation who experience difficulty in attending school after an acute orthopaedic injury. METHODS A survey was created to obtain information on school absence for children with acute orthopaedic injuries. All members of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America were invited to complete t...

Employee absenteeism has long been studied in the areas of industrial organization and human resource management, but only recently have researchers in education policy paid attention to teacher absenteeism because of its effects on student achievement. Even then, no study has focused on comparing teacher-absence rates across school types. This study fills this gap in the literature by using a ...

OBJECTIVE To describe school absences in adolescents with Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome (JPFS) and examine the relationship between school absenteeism, pain, psychiatric symptoms, and maternal pain history. METHODS Adolescents with JPFS (N = 102; mean age 14.96 years) completed measures of pain and depressive symptoms, and completed a psychiatric interview. Parents provided informati...

This Appendix provides details and expanded results for our paper, “Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”. In the main paper we present the data and experimental design. Our results show negative, although small, effects of periods on school attendance. We find no significant effect of modern sanitary products on reducing the small effect ...

The Early Warning System (EWS) is a tool developed by the National High School Center to collect data on indicators including attendance, GPA, course failures and credits earned. These indicators have been found to be highly predictive of a student’s likelihood of dropping out of high school in large, urban areas. The EWS tool was studied in two suburban schools. With the exception of attendanc...

The millennium development goals accorded highest priorities for achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. South Asian countries and India are societies with strong patriarchal norms, a high degree of son preference and pervasive gender discriminations. Using National family health survey (1998-99) data, this paper adopts a multiple indicator approach to study gender bias on the basis ...

BACKGROUND Approximately 55,000 children in New Zealand do not eat breakfast on any given day. Regular breakfast skipping has been associated with poor diets, higher body mass index, and adverse effects on children's behaviour and academic performance. Research suggests that regular breakfast consumption can improve academic performance, nutrition and behaviour. This paper describes the protoco...

Results: “For school attendance, re-analysis showed benefits similar to those originally found in intervention schools for both children who did and did not receive deworming drugs. However, after correction of coding errors, there was little evidence of an indirect effect on school attendance amongst children in schools close to intervention schools. Combining these effects gave a total increa...

Li Gan October 2010 Examples Censored data examples: (1) stadium attendance= min(attendance, capacity) Here grouping (those observations with attendance rates less than one vs those observations with attendance rates at one) are clearly based on observed factors. (2) Top-coding: wealth = min (wealth, 1 million) We are interested in understanding how wealth is determined: wealth = xβ + u, where ...