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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Gender and education"”.
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
By revisiting the long-standing discourse on the economic value of education, this thesis investigates whether education continues to pay off despite persistent gender wage differentials in Nigeria’s segmented labour market. Using a household-level cross-sectional micro dataset from the Living …
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Social Change, Gender and Education: Exceptional Swedish Immigrant Women at North Park College, 1900-1920
The present study focused on the educational and career experiences of four selected Swedish immigrant women at North Park College in Chicago from 1900-1920. There is a gap in the extant literature with regard to the Swedish immigrant women experiences, and this study attempted to shed some light …
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The Role of Gender and Education in the Perpetration and Prevention of School-related Gender-based Violence
<p>This study examines how gender ideologies contribute to violence in and around schools while looking through a peace research framework proposed by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung (1969). The study explores school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) in three regions—the United States, …
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Girls' Education as a Means or End of Development? A Case Study of Gender and Education Policy Knowledge and Action in the Gambia
Girls’ education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co-existence of two …
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Normative Scores on the Trail Making Test for the Icelandic Population
… scores for the Trail Making Test for the Icelandic population because until now, specialists administering the test for Icelandic patients had been using normative scores from foreign nations to evaluate their performance. The aim was to demonstrate the affect age, gender and education had on …
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Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship benefits the individual and society, but it was unclear whether emotional intelligence (EI) predicts entrepreneurial outcomes. New ventures fail at a high rate. A possible factor in the success or failure of small business could be the emotional intelligence (EI) level of the …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
… Using data from the 2000 National Election Study and ordered probit analysis, this research produces a multivariate, multi-stage model of death penalty attitudes. Demographic factors such as race, age, gender, and education level are included in the initial stage of the model. Attitudinal …
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Noise and Mode of Presentation Effects on the Memory Performance of Individuals With Closed Head Injury
… in nine individuals with closed head injury and nine controls matched for age, gender, and education level. Subjects were asked to verbally recall selected words from a list of six words that were visually presented to them. Task stimuli were shown under two conditions (noise vs. no noise) …
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The Second Sex of Tomorrow? Constructions of Masculinity in the Moral Panic About Boy's Education. A Content Analysis of Canadian News Media
… in ten major Canadian newspapers between 1990 and 2011, this thesis asks how masculinity is represented in discourses about gender and education. My analysis suggests that the public discourse about boys' education is out of touch with scholarly research, and instead relies on a number of …
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Protecting the Majority: A Study into the Difference in State Response to Militant Extremists
… the political ideology of militant extremists and the selection of Majority or Minority target influences sentencing severity. The research uses information collected on 510 indictees in "The American Terrorism Study, 1980-2002", which was funded by the United States Department of Justice. …
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Gender is a Difference that Makes a Difference: Examining Teaching Practice Using Jane Roland Martin's Theory of Education
Evidence of gender roles and dichotomies can be observed in a variety of ways in the elementary school classroom. Often, these roles and dichotomies are reflective of the values that society holds. To further explore gender in education I use Jane Roland Martin’s book, Reclaiming A Conversation: …
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Investicijos į žmogiškąjį kapitalą ir jų efektyvumo vertinimas /
… the question of investment in human capital and its efficiency. It also enumerates various methods and techniques that have been used in the Lithuanian and foreign economical literature to estimate the private and social internal rate of return to education. Two main methods are illustrated …
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Predicting the number of potential military recruits over the next ten years with application to recruiter placement
… directly affects organizational efficiency and mission success. In order to produce a model to assist decision makers, this study analyzed (1) demographic characteristics of past military applicants; (2) recruiter assignment histories; (3) station ZIP codes; and (4) predicted populations …
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Determinants of agricultural loan repayments: the case of MAFISA funded farmers in uMkanyakude, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
… Africa. This study examined the socio-economic and loan factors that influence loan repayment of MAFISA-funded farmers in umKanyakude district municipality. Using data from 191 selected loans granted by Peulwana Agricultural Financial Services (PAFS), the study employed a logit model to identify …
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Investigating the determinants of access to health care services in Namibia
… household/individual, community characteristics and health services utilisation in extant literature is relatively broad. Using data adopted from the Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey (NHIES) conducted between April 2015 and March 2016, this thesis investigated the determinants of …
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The structural neurobiology of social anxiety disorder : a clinical neuroimaging study
… underpinnings in SAD. 18 psychopharmacologically and psychotherapeutically naïve adult patients with a primary Axis I diagnosis of generalized social anxiety disorder and 18 demographically (age, gender and education) matched healthy controls underwent 3T structural magnetic resonance imaging. A …
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Modeling the Africa Diaspora Pension Fund: likely financing instrument for Africa's development infrastructure
The case study research sought to investigate and establish the attitude of the Africa diaspora community, mainly associated with the University of Cape Town, towards the modeling of a diaspora pension fund as a likely instrument for the financing of the continent's development infrastructure. The …
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Technology innovation management in the Nigerian banking industry: integrating stakeholders' perspectives, an exploration of strategy and policy implications.
… of the world as a way of delivering effective and efficient banking services. Despite the several benefits of e-banking technologies, many individual bank customers in Nigeria have not adopted most of the available channels. ATM has remained the most patronized compared to other channels such …
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Ethical reasoning and the importance of ethics: a comparison of New Zealand and Chinese accounting students
Recent business scandals, such as Enron, have highlighted that ethical issues in accounting are not being dealt with properly by accountants and have raised questions about accountants’ appreciation of ethics as professionals. Many studies have examined the relationships between individuals’ …
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Study of the stages of readiness to adopt exercise and strength training behaviors among adults 65 years and older
… accurately describe stages of adopting exercise and strength training behaviors among older adults; and to test if the variables of age, gender, education, current level of physical activity, and health problems are accurate measures of predicting stage. Participants included 277 residents of 6 …
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