• A large workfare program in India led to increased school dropout rates and lower test scores among poor youth. (nber.org)
  • This report highlights notable differences in graduation and dropout rates among subgroups of English learner students. (ed.gov)
  • This paper examines disparities in dropout and graduation rates among various subgroups of students. (researchgate.net)
  • Chapter 2: Youth unemployment and high school dropout: The second chapter of this thesis provides a general description of the nature of high school dropout and youth unemployment in South Africa. (kent.ac.uk)
  • From the study's title, one might think that it contains evidence that boys are not languishing academically. (iwf.org)
  • A recent study shows that exposure to high achievers during the first week at college can lead to lower course grades and higher dropout rates among academically weaker students. (lu.se)
  • The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation: a survey ," GLO Discussion Paper Series 189, Global Labor Organization (GLO). (repec.org)
  • The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation: A Survey ," IZA Discussion Papers 11421, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). (repec.org)
  • College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities ," The Review of Economics and Statistics , MIT Press, vol. 94(3), pages 699-711, August. (repec.org)
  • However, economics and evidence suggest that while causation goes both ways, the dominant direction is that women's empowerment leads to growth and social development. (thedailystar.net)
  • I did look at all the primary on-line stores with reviews, and there were few at each and at least half were negative with NOTABLE dropouts as recent as August 2016 - and all stating they were at the latest code, too. (line6.com)
  • CDC has summarized the best available evidence in Youth Violence Prevention Resource for Action [4 MB, 64 Pages] . (cdc.gov)
  • To improve graduation rates, districts and schools need clear, evidence-based information about the impact of dropout prevention strategies. (air.org)
  • The Resource Guide describes the rationale and evidence for the effectiveness of various suicide prevention strategies, and it identifies model programs that incorporate these strategies. (cdc.gov)
  • Specifically, I adopt a flexible framework that allows me to quantify selection on unobservables between dropouts and graduates and establish to what extent this selection matters. (kent.ac.uk)
  • I treat individual differences that may exist between dropouts and graduates as both observed and unobserved. (kent.ac.uk)
  • The researchers found that, compared to high school graduates, the dropouts were three times more likely to have been arrested by age 18 and four times as likely to need government assistance by age 27. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • Researchers discovered that the dropouts were 24 times more likely than high school graduates to experience four or more negative outcomes by age 27. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • First, we review the various ways dropout and graduation rates are measured. (researchgate.net)
  • The researchers noted that there is little known about what causes dropouts. (atforum.com)
  • A dearth of evidence exists exploring motivations to discontinue OAT," the researchers wrote. (atforum.com)
  • Instead, based on the guidance of educational researchers, governments often depend on pilot evidence as sufficient for scale-up decisions, without undertaking a thorough investigation of the aspects of system capacity that will be most critical to producing similar impact at scale. (springer.com)
  • But there are interventions and treatments that can improve the odds for dropouts, according to researchers from Duke University. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • Researchers also found dropouts suffered more problems in later life if they were rejected by classmates in elementary school or became parents themselves at a young age. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • The evidence used to justify national or large-scale programs typically has emanated from pilot initiatives that increasingly have provided rigorous evidence of impact on learning outcomes. (springer.com)
  • But our robust evidence clearly shows that treating blood pressure to a lower level than currently recommended targets results in better health outcomes for patients," explains lead author Anthony Rodgers, Professor of Global Health at The George Institute of Global Health, Sydney, Australia. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It looked at the factors that increased the children's risk of dropping out, how high school dropouts fared later in life, and what factors prevented negative outcomes. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • Although an increased dependence on causal evidence to justify large-scale implementation strengthens the research base for large programs, the decisions to take these programs to scale have largely been undertaken without a body of literature that examines the barriers to successful large-scale educational implementation or whether the external validity assumptions for these comparisons hold (Bates and Glennerster 2017 ). (springer.com)
  • There's causal evidence that children growing up in cities where violence is declining are more likely to rise up in the income distribution when they reach adulthood and move out of poverty. (vox.com)
  • labor market performance - which are drawn from the empirical evidence. (repec.org)
  • There's very, very little empirical evidence about the effectiveness of these pathways," says Roddy Theobald, deputy director of the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. (npr.org)
  • The examples provided are not intended to be a comprehensive list of evidence-based programs, policies, or practices for each approach but rather illustrate models that have been shown to decrease youth or community violence victimization or perpetration or have beneficial effects on risk or protective factors for youth or community violence. (cdc.gov)
  • METS seeks to use evidenced-based, innovative practices to give project participants the resources, supports, and pathways to success into, though, and beyond a postsecondary degree. (marquette.edu)
  • I defined a high school dropout in the data as an individual who was enrolled in high school at the beginning of the survey but failed to complete the last year of high school education (i.e., grade 12 in South Africa) before terminating their enrolment. (kent.ac.uk)
  • In addition, I identify the following individuals as those more that are more vulnerable to high school dropout: black students, young students, students with record of poor academic performance, students who live close to school, and students with less educated fathers. (kent.ac.uk)
  • The third chapter of my thesis focuses primarily on assessing the patterns of self-selection into high school dropout and high school graduation. (kent.ac.uk)
  • As a reduced-form measure of self-selection, I propose to consider the correlation coefficient of the bivariate distribution of unobserved heterogeneity across two possible exit states: high school dropout and high school graduation. (kent.ac.uk)
  • This runs contrary to typical findings in developed countries, which suggest that high school dropouts are individuals with relatively low ability, low expectations, and a set of negative preferences. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Chapter 4: High School Dropout and its Wage Consequences The fourth chapter of my thesis focuses on the wage consequences of dropping out of high school. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Is There a Second Chance for High-School Dropouts? (insee.fr)
  • This 2009 report provides additional evidence of the high cost to individuals and society of the high school drop out crisis. (tutormentorexchange.net)
  • In addition, Marquette educational Talent Search encourages high school dropouts to return to school. (marquette.edu)
  • I am in the process of getting new wireless for my guitar and as I've searched all over the internet (Amazon, Sweetwater, MusFriend, Guitar Center, etc..), the personal reviews are consistently still complaints of major dropouts for the product (as of August 2016 - even with the latest firmware upgrade). (line6.com)
  • Aetna considers the dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) or ethylenediaminetetraacetic (EDTA) provocative chelation/mobilization test experimental and investigational as a means of diagnosing lead toxicity because of insufficient evidence of its effectiveness. (aetna.com)
  • However, there is a lack of synthesized evidence regarding the effectiveness of mobile phone apps in changing people's health-related behaviors. (jmir.org)
  • Our results provide a snapshot of the current evidence of effectiveness for a range of health-related apps. (jmir.org)
  • A preliminary description of the data shows a high dropout rate of about 50% on the average. (kent.ac.uk)
  • When there was insufficient evidence from the literature, a Delphi process was used to provide basis for recommendation. (bmj.com)
  • We aimed to review the existing literature to establish the evidence base for their use. (bmj.com)
  • This study examined the graduation and dropout rates of current and former English learner students compared to those who had never been English learners in six school districts in the south King County area of Washington state. (ed.gov)
  • It also finds that the early warning indicators used by the six districts were poor predictors of dropout for all students, but particularly for newcomer English learner students. (ed.gov)
  • Additionally, the study found that most dropouts face multiple hardships as adults. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • There was no evidence of a higher dropout rate in the more intensive treatment group compared to the standard group. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a 2010 paper, Todd Makse and Anand Sokhey looked at Ohio's Franklin County , chosen because it's representative of the American public as a whole, and found evidence in precincts that had been favorable to Clinton of "defection and abstention" in the general election - voting for McCain or not at all. (fivethirtyeight.com)
  • We found a handful of recent studies and research that made explicit a model by which evidence from pilot programs should interact with scale-up designs. (springer.com)
  • Those receiving the full payment have the largest initial increase in participation and some evidence is found suggesting that part of the effect can be explained by liquidity constraints. (uwpress.org)
  • Dropouts did not report higher pain (baseline), only 3 dropped out because of lumbar spine-related pain. (lu.se)
  • We assessed the evidence using GRADE and created 'Summary of findings' tables. (nih.gov)
  • Are two commonly used early warning indicators accurate predictors of dropout for English learner students? (ed.gov)
  • I'm delighted to welcome you to today's COCA Call "Assessment and Evidence-based Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder. (cdc.gov)
  • It's evidence that these kinds of treatments can work. (atthecrossroads.com)
  • College cost and time to complete a degree: Evidence from tuition discontinuities ," Working Papers 354, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University. (repec.org)
  • His parents, German Jews, fled to Uruguay and eventually wound up in Seattle, where Sondland grew up and started his hotel chain by purchasing the bankrupt Roosevelt Hotel as a 28-year-old University of Washington dropout. (crosscut.com)
  • La participation des chefs de groupe spirituels a été recherchée dans 15 villages de la tribu Sorchi, connue pour avoir en permanence des taux de couverture faibles. (who.int)
  • The persistent effects of short-term peer groups on performance: Evidence from a natural experiment in higher education. (lu.se)
  • But its first big study, 'The Evidence Suggests Otherwise: Truth About Boys and Girls,' is deficient in this virtue. (iwf.org)
  • This paper evaluates a United Kingdom pilot study designed to test whether a means-tested conditional cash transfer paid to 16- to 18-year-olds for staying in full-time education is an effective way of reducing the proportion of school dropouts. (uwpress.org)
  • The study investigates whether the experience of having high achievers in one's freshmen group impacts student performance, including dropout, course grades, major choice, and time to graduation. (lu.se)
  • 377 participants, low quality evidence). (nih.gov)
  • Comparison with sham acupunctureBoth after treatment (12 trials, 1646 participants) and at follow-up (10 trials, 1534 participants), acupuncture was associated with a small but statistically significant frequency reduction over sham (moderate quality evidence). (nih.gov)
  • Specifically, I am interested in the severity and time pattern of the wage disadvantage dropouts face in the labour market, if any. (kent.ac.uk)
  • Optimal immunization coverage against vaccine-pre- out how, and at what level, the recommendations would ventable diseases (VPDs) is essential for achieving be addressed, recognizing limited published evidence re- and maintaining global health security. (cdc.gov)
  • In anticipation of the mismatch between demand and initial supply, WHO coordinated the development of a framework for allocation of limited malaria vaccine supply (herein referred to as the Framework), to guide in a transparent, principles-and evidence-based manner how the initial limited vaccine doses should be allocated. (who.int)
  • In fact, exposure to NREGS during ages 2-4 may have increased test scores and en-rollment rates, likely because of increases in family income due to the program. (nber.org)
  • But a review of the evidence also tells me Sondland does not share the dark side of Trump: the racism and xenophobia, the antagonism to strong women and a lack of empathy. (crosscut.com)
  • This review systematically evaluates the evidence for the efficacy of OPEP devices in acute and stable COPD and highlights gaps in the evidence needed to guide their use. (bmj.com)
  • Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because of the limited evidence available. (iadb.org)
  • At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to describe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition , DSM-5 assessment criteria for opioid use disorder, discuss the evidence for opioid use disorder medication assisted treatment with types of medications and settings used in medication assisted therapy. (cdc.gov)
  • Results indicate no statistically significant effects of increasing technology access in schools on repetition, dropout and initial enrollment. (iadb.org)
  • The HEART model incorporates an evidence-based, three-phase approach to treatment with the addition of key phases focused on spiritual healing. (aacc.net)
  • I recently spoke to Sharkey about what's causing the uptick in gun violence in big US cities, whether there is an inevitable trade-off between reducing police presence and reducing violence, his vision for a community-driven approach to public safety (and the evidence base behind that vision), what he thinks the "defund the police" campaign gets right (and wrong), and more. (vox.com)
  • College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities ," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 38, Collegio Carlo Alberto. (repec.org)
  • College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities ," CEPR Discussion Papers 6106, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. (repec.org)
  • College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities ," NBER Working Papers 12863, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • this evidence was paired with expert real-world experience to better understand the impact of misuse and diversion on the individual and on society. (karger.com)
  • In Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India (NBER Working Paper 21543 ), Manisha Shah and Bryce Millett Steinberg examine the impact on human capital investment of one of the world's largest workfare programs, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). (nber.org)
  • Pharmacological treatment, with fludrocortisone first‑line (see the NICE evidence summary: unlicensed off-label medicine on fludrocortisone for orthostatic hypotension ). (nice.org.uk)
  • However, this evidence is too recent to influence the design decisions made by governments. (springer.com)
  • Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? (iadb.org)
  • Education Sector, a new Washington think tank established this year by the Bill & Melinda Gates and other leading foundations, describes itself as an 'honest broker of evidence in key education debates. (iwf.org)