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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis:
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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....Abstract:
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...read more
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
TL;DR: MacLeod, Jay as mentioned in this paper conducted participant observation of two groups of male youth, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers, living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, but the two groups differed in important respects: the Hallways Hangers are predominantly white youth who, at that point in their young lives, openly resisted the American achievement ideology advanced by schools.
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More Tools for the Synthesist’s Toolbag in Harris Cooper’s Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (4th ed.)
TL;DR: Cooper's revised and expanded fourth edition of Research Synthesis and MetaAnalysis: A Step-by-Step Approach (2010) provides these needed guidelines with special attention given to the threats to validity at all steps of the research synthesis process.
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The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
TL;DR: The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood as mentioned in this paper examines the long-term outcomes of the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP), a representative sample of Baltimore public school first-graders selected in the fall of 1982 and followed through 2006.
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Family socio-economic status and children's academic achievement: The different roles of parental academic involvement and subjective social mobility.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is a pathway from family SES to children's academic achievement through parental academic involvement and that this pathway is dependent on the level of parental subjective social mobility.
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Economic Development and the Effects of Family Characteristics on Mathematics Achievement
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between nations' level of economic development and the influence of adolescents' social backgrounds on their academic achievement using data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), finding that the positive effect of higher parents' education on middleschool students' mathematics test scores is remarkably consistent among the 34 nations examined.
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Schooling and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Bangladesh.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the individual and household level characteristics that affect the demand for schooling in Bangladesh and found that an increase in the permanent income of the household is always associated with an increased educational attainment.
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Traders, Teachers, and Tyrants: Democracy, Globalization, and Public Investment in Education
TL;DR: This article developed a model of the redistributive political economy of education spending, focusing on the role of democracy and economic openness in determining the provision of education, and argued that democratization should be associated with higher levels of public education, lower private education spending and a shift from tertiary education spending toward primary education.
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Interventions in Developing Nations for Improving Primary and Secondary School Enrollment of Children: A Systematic Review
TL;DR: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi-experiments of strategies in developing nations to get children into school (enrollment) and keep them there (attendance, persistence, continuation) has not yet been reported, nor has any looked at supplemental outcomes focused on learning as mentioned in this paper.
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