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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Young Lives"”.
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Parents’ Perceptions Of Safety In Public Space And Adolescent Well-Being In Ethiopia, Peru, And Vietnam
… for boys and girls. Data were drawn from Young Lives, a multi-country panel study. The sample included 820 parent/adolescent dyads in Ethiopia, 620 in Peru, and 941 in Vietnam. Descriptive statistics and multivariate regressions were conducted. Perceiving one’s child unsafe in public space …
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Something between us
… which South Africa's past, as refracted through young lives, continues to reach into the present.
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A case study of Latina/o students at a community college in the Midwest
… focused on a particular moment in their young lives--pre-college, college, and future. The data collection phase generated a total of 44 hours of recorded audio time among all 16 participants. Participants were also informally observed during community service events as well as student …
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The epidemiology, pathology and toxicology of suicide
… 4. Suicides accounted for the Joss of young lives, the average age being 37,8 years. The mean age was 34 years. 5. Most victims committed suicide in and around their own homes. 6. The majority did not leave suicide notes. 7. Psychiatric disorders, poor health, arguments with close …
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Efecto a largo plazo de los choques de precipitación en el periodo de gestación y la formación de capital humano
… rasgos de personalidad recogidas por la encuesta Young Lives en Vietnam y las variación entre comunas y el periodo de gestación de los niños de la encuesta, se estima el efecto tanto de los choques por exceso de precipitación como por reducción de precipitación sobre el desarrollo de habilidades …
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Teacher Otherness in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking uncertainty and difference through a Kristevan lens
… in the wider society and their influence on young lives make reconceptualisations of their own cultural selves vital and urgent. The thesis culminates in concluding calls for revolt through an evolving model of useful entry points for further research and practice. The model draws on …
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John Keats, The Great Romanticist
… of the eighteenth century ran deeply in the young lives of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and in the whole careers of Shelley and Byron.x The poets of English Romanticism had definite limitations, as the following pages will attempt to show. They lacked vision for the world of man, except in …
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Coming of age in Khayelitsha: gendered identity, sexual partnerships and the transition to adulthood
The lives of young people in Khayelitsha are characterised by a series of intersecting challenges. These include inadequate access to education, limited opportunities to find gainful employment, exposure to violence and the risk of contracting HIV. Several conventional avenues of transition to …
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Essays on early childhood development and family economics
… Vocabulary Test. Using the longitudinal study Young Lives project in India, I apply the algorithm proposed by Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) to build control functions that account for the endogeneity of parental investment decisions and uncover causal effects of key inputs. I find that household …
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
Young people go to college not merely to equip themselves for competition in the workplace, but also to construct new identities and find a home in the world. This dissertation shows how, in the midst of wrenching social change, communities, too, use colleges in their struggle to reinvent and …
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Applying a critical quantitative lens to examine the learning outcome differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Peru
… review and the empirical analyses of the Peru Young Lives survey. To address aim one, an integrative review of the literature, t-tests and Differential Item Functioning analyses are undertaken to examine different indigeneity definitions and the validity of outcome measures. Reflexivity is …
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Township youth perceptions of poverty and unemployment in Cape Town, South Africa
… study contributes to the understanding of how young adults living in Cape Town's townships experience poverty and unemployment in neighborhoods where both are prevalent. Unemployment is acknowledged to be a fundamental problem for township dwellers and yet the psychological repercussions on …