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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis:

Sung won Kim, +2 more
- 25 Sep 2019 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 6, pp 875-916
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Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr....
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Despite the multiple meta-analyses documenting the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and achievement, none have examined this question outside of English-speaking industrialized countr...

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Does educational attainment and gender inequalities affect wealth accumulation? Evidence from Vietnam

Duc Hong Vo, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2022 - 
TL;DR: For instance, Nguyen et al. as discussed by the authors used data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) in ten years between 2008 and 2018 to examine the effects of educational attainment on Vietnamese households' wealth accumulation.
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School and student determinants of reading performance: A multilevel analysis with Portuguese students

TL;DR: The authors used Hierarchical linear modeling to study the relation of school and student-level variables to students' reading performance and found that students' confidence in reading and home resources for learning are the best predictors of reading performance at the student level.
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Illiteracy and truancy: implications for parents, teachers and governments

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between parental illiteracy and truancy among urban and rural Day Secondary School pupils in Kaduna and Katsina States and discussed the implications of this for parents, teachers and governments and other remediation measures.
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High Achievers from Low Family Socioeconomic Status Families: Protective Factors for Academically Resilient Students

TL;DR: In this paper , a causal comparative research model was applied to determine significant protective factors associated with academically resilient students (referring to students are resilient if they are among the 25% most socio-economically disadvantaged students in their city but are able to achieve the top 25% or above in all three academic domains).
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Higher-achieving children are better at estimating the number of books at home: Evidence and implications

TL;DR: This paper found more downward bias in estimates of books at home among high achieving students than among low-achieving students, but unsystematic errors appear to be larger among low achieving students.
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