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Knowledge acquisition

Known as: education level, level of education, educations 
Acquisition of knowledge as a result of instruction in a formal course of study.
National Institutes of Health

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Academic achievementActivities and participation ICF code:Find:Pt:^Patient:NomCase management (procedure)Classroom Discipline
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Correspondence CoursesEducation, ContinuingEducation, NursingEducational Activities
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010
Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by… Expand
Review
2008
Review
2008
Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital
Summary In this paper we review the associations between maternal and child undernutrition with human capital and risk of adult… Expand
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to… Expand
Review
1999
Review
1999
The Causal Effect of Education on Learning
This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and earnings. I focus on four areas of work… Expand
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Review
1997
Review
1997
The effects of poverty on children.
Although hundreds of studies have documented the association between family poverty and children's health, achievement, and… Expand
Review
1996
Review
1996
Knowledge acquisition from foreign parents in international joint ventures: an empirical examination in the Hungarian context
In this paper, we examine organizational characteristics, structural mechanisms and contextual factors that influence knowledge… Expand
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics
Abstract : Even today, many complex and important skills, such as those required for language use and social interaction, are… Expand
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
A short questionnaire for the measurement of habitual physical activity in epidemiological studies.
The construct validity and the test-retest reliability of a self-administered questionnaire about habitual physical activity were… Expand
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement
Arthur Jensen argues that the failure of recent compensatory education efforts to produce lasting effects on children's IQ and… Expand
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Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
The Biological Foundations of Language
The coming of language occurs at about the same age in every healthy child throughout the world, strongly supporting the concept… Expand
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