The protests started like sirens – this wasn’t what I was looking for at all. I needed to curl up in a ball, cover my head and pretend to live in a magical kingdom where laundry didn’t exist andallchildren have nannies. But I had caused this upset I owed it to them to at le...
accounting@gilbertineinstitute.com Melissa was raised on fresh air, hard work, and unconditional love in rural north-eastern Alberta. She was "officially” homeschooled for the second half of her school years, but was introduced to learning at home well before gaining the title of homeschooler....
We focus on the links between the increased use of digital data and the central role of data infrastructures in education, and the energy infrastructure needed to support their growing use in schools and school systems. We elaborate a need for a greater accounting of the ...
For these reasons, it is important to elaborate on the profile of the different samples of the School Barometer as needed to interpret the first exemplary findings reported in this article: Parents: Parents from cities (57%) dominate the sample. However, in contrast to the student sample, 37...
No direct effect was observed for the influence of Education Years on T2D, when accounting for having either a sibling (OR 0.97; 95% CI 0.64, 1.46) or a mom with diabetes (OR 0.99; 95% CI 0.59, 1.64). The proportion of the total effect of Education Years on T2D potentially mediated ...
The main effect implies an increase of 0.18 years of schooling due to exposure to the program, accounting for about 20% of the overall growth in educational attainment. These results show the substantial role of an early-life nutritional intervention in improving long-term educational outcomes for...
While there are other reasons for investing in their children's education, including the intergenerational transfer of wealth, we make the simplifying assumption that parents invest in the education of their children out of altruism. This helps us obtain our results more easily. Accounting for the ...
“money box”where we used to keep cash, both notes and coins, needed to run the family for a given month. It is similar to theworking capitalof a company. Once in few days, we will replenish the money box with more cash as it gets used. As capitalism creates conditions for ...
Later on, as I became old enough to have summer jobs, I worked in various offices doing various things. One summer I worked in the accounting department of a development bank. There were other jobs every summer in between that and college. In the summer in between my second and my final...
Accounting rules and regulatory rules were in my opinion flawed, because they allowed for gain on sale in securitizations, rather than off of release from risk, which means much more capital would need to be held, and profits deferred till deals near their completion. ...