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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Mexican Families"”.
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Linguistic Interactions of Spanish Speaking Mexican American Families
… the bilingual linguistic interactions in Mexican families and their impact on children’s language and literacy development. This qualitative study gathered data using different methods, namely, interviews, direct observations, participant observation, and physical artifacts to examine …
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Schooling in Mexico: An Evaluation of Private Costs as a Determinant of Household Demand for Education, and the Benefits of a Free Textbook Program
… education are scarce. I use data from the 2005 Mexican Family Life Survey first to examine the nature of these private costs for Mexican families and second to determine to what extent direct schooling costs incurred by households are significant factors in enrollment decisions for primary and …
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Mexican-American High School Students and the Role of Literacy Across Home-School-Community Settings
… than those acknowledged at school. In school, Mexican background students were viewed in terms of their limited English status and were mostly enrolled in low academic tracks. Mexican American students who were fluent bilinguals were not recognized for their linguistic proficiency. The speaking …
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Levels of Acculturation of Children of Mexican Descent as Perceived in their Kinetic Family Drawings
… Information on Hispanic children and their families is limited. More research activity is crucial in the light of the rapidly expanding population of Latino/Hispanics. Mexican families present a particular challenge to clinicians and to treatment settings, as well as to researchers. The …
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Recommendations to make the affordable housing sector in Mexico more efficient in order to increase the welfare and quality of life of Mexicans
… The proposals are: i) the creation of affordable Mexican edge cities, ii) the exploration of the Section 8 tenant-based housing voucher program practiced in the United States, and iii) the use of housing development as a regional development tool coupled with an industrial policy to rescue the …
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Essays on Development Economics: Families, Child Human Capital, and Migration
… the use of uniquely rich longitudinal data, the Mexican Family Life Survey, to advance our understanding of individual, household and family behavior.</p><p>Using these population-level data, the first chapter is an evaluation of a prominent anti-poverty program, Oportunidades, on child …
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Intergenerational family dynamics and leisure among second-generation Mexican-American youth
… leisure activities among second-generation Mexican-American youth ages 11-15 that take place within and outside of the low-income communities in which they reside. Specifically, the study explored 1) how residence in low-income communities conditions leisure activities among Mexican-American …