The likelihood that a girl will participate in high school sports in the United States is driven not so much by individual choice, new research suggests. Instead, decisions made by parents, the wealth of one's family and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 29, 2024
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Countries hosting the Olympic Games do not tend win more medals when socioeconomic factors are controlled for, reports a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings dispute the existence of the so-called "host effect"—where ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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Data from large-scale travel surveys suggest that socioeconomic status may amplify underlying differences in the spatial patterns of how men versus women travel within cities. Mariana Macedo of the University of Exeter, U.K., ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
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The key to improving young children's vocabulary and math skills may lie in changing their parents' beliefs. We describe these findings in an article published in October 2021 in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2022
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New research published in Frontiers in Education argues that analyzing the individual components that underlie socioeconomic status, such as parents' occupation or the number of books in a home, is a better predictor of student ...
Education
Nov 22, 2021
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Teachers have very little to do with why some kids are better at school than others, our research shows. This contradicts the popular view that teachers matter most (after genes) when it comes to academic achievement.
Education
Oct 24, 2019
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While perceptions of computing majors among high school students suggest that the geek stereotype is on the way out, a Penn State Lehigh Valley researcher said that universities may want to reach out to parents, particularly ...
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2019
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About 35 percent of children in the United States have lived with a relative other than their parent or sibling at some point by age 18, says a University of Michigan researcher.
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2019
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A majority of Millennials regularly got paid news content in the last year, whether paid for by themselves or someone else, according to a new study conducted by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration between the American ...
Economics & Business
Sep 30, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according to one of the first ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2012
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