Education

Second, we tested for interactive effects between education and other potential determinants of evacuation, i.e., we regressed evacuation against evacuation predictors

We will specifically discuss the notions of bricolage and remediation, as examples of manifest expressions of an environment in which tra- ditional user and provider roles are evolving

Die Teilnehmenden fühlen sich wohl in ihrer Gruppe. Einige berichteten jedoch von anderen Personen, welche teilnahmslos dem Unterricht folgen und sich vor allem im Gruppen- unterricht

Differences in school duration of up to one year do not seem to have an impact on student performance, as neither mathematics nor sci- ence test results are significantly affected if

The European Commission has applied a modified perpetual inventory methodology in projecting the levels of educational attainment based on projections of the average years of

A number of studies have compared losses from climate hazards with a number of development indicators, finding significant correlations with income, population density,

The role of girls and women in building resilience and reducing disaster vulnerability is apparent and has recently been accredited by the International Federation of Red Cross

Based on the Thai government surveys of the living conditions and life quality of 68,343 rural villages for the years 2009 and 2011, we investigated the impacts of floods and droughts

McCarthy and McCarthy, 2006), especially when relatively abstract phenomena like the tragedy of the commons and fisheries-induced evolution can be made tangible. Therefore, we designed

Based on the assumption that education can reduce vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacity to natural disasters, this Special Issue collects empirical evidence from different

More members in the household reduces the chance of abuse while having a greater number of children increases the chance of abuse (neglect and verbal abuse).. We find that education

These analyses (not shown) suggest that among educationally homogamous couples with children below age 12, the observed education effects are to a substantial degree confounded by

The analysis presented in this study consists of two parts. First, I study changes in the marriage P&R process across cohorts of women born between 1916 and 1980. Graphical

Abstract: We hereby present a dataset produced at the Wittgenstein Centre (WIC) containing comprehensive time series on educational attainment and mean years of schooling (MYS). It

One reason why formal education can enhance coping strategies in the aftermath of a natural disaster is that highly educated individuals or households may have greater

We used the results of a household survey in rural Uganda to ask, first, what coping strategies would tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple

On the other hand, for individuals with higher education, it is evident that their likelihood of taking preparedness actions increases with tsunami experience,

Based on Model 3, in the Terai, a one-year increase in mean years of schooling was associated with a two-fifths (1-exp[-0.49]) decline in the number of families affected due to floods