In this study, we research the gap in average mathematics learning between children of private and public schools at two points. We have divided them into groups on basis type school they are attending or last attended. first skim through their various background characteristics these then explore using threefold Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition, find that it is difference endowments which consiste...

A previously undocumented association between city-level degree of hukou-based labor market discrimination and migrant’s individual entrepreneurship engagement is examined. Applying the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis on micro data from China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) suggests that can average explain a 6.3% differential in personal income for rural migrants relative to otherwise ide...

Purpose This study aims to use a comparative analysis examine the channel of deferring cash commitments, which can be seen as strategic solution mitigate impact COVID-19 on Moldova's service sector. Design/methodology/approach paper uses Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis. The World Bank's post-COVID-19 survey is used. methodology takes into account heterogeneity among firms. Findings result...

Abstract We examined risk and protective factors associated with dementia decomposed racial/ethnic disparities in dementia. performed a retrospective analysis of 3,495 individuals 65+ who participated the 2016 Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol, linked to Health Retirement Study. Using MMSE score, were classified as having vs cognitively normal. Risk included cardiovascular hearing loss m...

Based on small samples (exemplars) analyzed with morphological methods, including detailed descriptions and illustrations, this study treats primarily the Zuphium genus-group in the Western Hemisphere, which comprises two precinctive genera: Coarazuphium Gnaspini, Vanin & Godoy, 1998 (type species Parazuphium tessai Godoy & Vanin, 1990) and Zuphioides gen. n. (type species Zuphium mexicanum Cha...

Ocotea heribertoi is a remarkable new species from very high precipitation rain forests of the Chimalapa-Uxpanapa region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico. It sports the largest known globose fruit within this large genus, borne in an unusual cupule, while the combination of vegetative and floral features indicate that it is apparently not closely related to any descr...

Recently completed excavations at the site of El Palenque in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca have recovered the well-preserved remains of a palace complex dated by associated radiocarbon samples and ceramics to the Late Formative period or Late Monte Albán I phase (300-100 BC), the period of archaic state emergence in the region. The El Palenque palace exhibits certain architectural and organizationa...

In Norway, immigrants receive higher levels of social assistance than natives. How can we explain this difference? After controlling for differences in take-up rates through a two-step Heckman procedure, attempt to answer question by exploiting rich data from administrative registers. We operationalise the Norwegian context employing composite variable that includes: (a) financial assistance, (...

In Mexico, the Long-tailed Wood-Partridge (Dendrortyx macroura) is distributed in the mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Sierra Madre del Sur and Sierra Norte de Oaxaca; while the Bearded Wood-Partridge (D. barbatus) is distributed in the Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO). There is a controversial overlap in distribution (sympatry) between these two species (on the Cofre de Perote and Pico...

Why are some countries characterized by more income redistribution than others? Based mainly on Trans-Atlantic comparisons, the literature has referred to dissimilarities in preferences for redistribution. In this article, we extend focusing multiple dimensions of redistributive and adding Japan comparison. More precisely, using data France, US, from ISSP 2009, apply cross-sectional regression ...