Search Results for Reading skills

...Emily Smith-Greenaway Abstract Mother’s formal schooling—even at the primary level—is associated with lower risk of child mortality, although the reasons why remain unclear. This study examines whether mother’s reading skills help to explain the association in Nigeria. Using data from...

.... Interpretations about the purpose and meaning of the census, about commitment to the task, and about connection to government, singly and together with literacy skills (e.g., reading and general literacy competence), were associated with errors that are not detectable by evaluative methodologies used regularly...

.... Neighborhood economic status appears to be strongly associated with children s skills acquisition. cquisition of basic skills during childhood in reading and mathematics is important to success in adult life (Farkas et al. 1997; Hauser et al. 2000; Kerckhoff, Raudenbush, and Glennie 2001). Farkas et al. (1997...

...Mark S. Handcock; Andrew L. Hicks; Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We revisit a novel causal model published in Demography by Hicks et al. (2018), designed to assess whether exposure to neighborhood disadvantage over time affects children's reading and math skills. Here, we provide...

... = 3,065) to estimate the heterogeneous relationship between paternal incarceration and children’s problem behaviors (internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and early juvenile delinquency) and cognitive skills (reading comprehension, math comprehension, and verbal ability) in middle childhood...

...Fig. 1 English oral reading skills by baseline school enrollment status. The figure presents the measurement of literacy skills that occurred most closely to the time of school leaving, stratified by school enrollment status at the first round of data collection. That is, for girls who were out...

... and society Vol. 18: The impact of HIV/AIDS on education worldwide (pp. 79 – 104 ). Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited . Smith-Greenaway E. ( 2013 ). Maternal reading skills and child mortality in Nigeria: A reassessment of why education matters . Demography , 50 , 1551 – 1561...

... and confluence hypotheses concerning the relationship between family size and both symbolic learning and reading and mathematics skills as measured by the Woodcock-Johnson Revised Letter-Word Identification (LW-R) and Applied Problems (AP) tests (Woodcock et al. 1989 ). We first estimate cross-sectional models...

... the odds ratio or the relative risk? . International Journal of Public Health , 53 , 165 – 167 . 10.1007/s00038-008-7068-3 Sénéchal , M. , & LeFevre , J-A ( 2002 ). Parental involvement in the development of children’s reading skill: A five-year longitudinal study . Child...

... that were used to measure cognitive ability at Wave 1 differed according to cohort. For the NCDS cohort, our tests were more similar to those used at Wave 2. We combined the scores from two general ability tests: one focusing on reading skills and the other on mathematics skills. For the BCS sample, at age...

... to previous studies using the DOT (e.g., Bacolod and Blum 2010 ; Bacolod et al. 2009 ) for constructing indices from the DOT. For example, the measure of language skills from the DOT is constructed from variables such as gedl , with five levels to capture reading, writing, and speaking skills required...

...  Service occupation –– 40  Manual occupation –– 24  Other occupation –– 13 Child Skill Outcomes  Reading 106.90 –– (0.10)  Math 103.83 –– (0.10)  Comprehension 105.03 –– (0.25)  Internalizing problems 101.63 –– (0.09)  Externalizing problems...

...- or mixed-handed were observed irrespective of whether the assessment was made by the teacher or a trained assessor, suggesting a reliable and robust effect. A broad range of skills were assessed, including vocabulary, reading, writing, copying, social development, and gross and ne motor skills. Left...

... market outcomes; for example, children in the lowest quartile of reading test scores at age 7 have 20 % lower wages at age 33. Skill development is a dynamic process that builds on earlier skill levels. Different skills are intertwined, thus fostering higher levels of complementary skills in the future...

.... Mother and family time-invariant characteristics include the mother’s age and marital status at the child’s birth, the mother’s standardized test score from the WJ-R Passage Comprehension test of reading skills, the family unit head’s educational attainment, and whether the family owned their home...

... parent-child U.S. intergenerational occupational mobility patterns and child occupational attainment differ based on parental premigration occupational status (i.e., low- vs. high-skilled) and parental postmigration occupational mobility (i.e., upward, same, or downward). Our results suggest...

... ................................................................2013–2035 Smith-Greenaway, Emily. Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria: A Reassessment of Why Education Matters .............1551–1561 Solli, Ingeborg F. See Mari Rege ..................................................................2255–2277 Song, Jieun. See Jason...

... language skills, and lower returns to foreign education and work experience (Sullivan and Ziegert 2008 ). One factor that remains underexplored, however, is the effect of female spouses’ employment on immigrant economic mobility. Although qualitative studies highlight the significant roles of employed...

... in cognitive skills, school grades, and educational attainment in Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We also compare sibling similarity by parental education and occupation within these societies. The comparison of sibling correlations across and within societies...