School discipline is a core indicator of school effectiveness. Learner management is crucial and educational researchers need to focus on factors leading to indiscipline in schools. Guided by Planned Behaviour Theory that explores on guidance, counseling and good classroom management the study used the survey research design to sample 91 teachers…

The purpose of this study was to longitudinally examine the relationship between father involvement in school settings and student achievement. The sample, pulled from the first and second waves of the PSID-CDS data set, consisted of 596 families with children aged 5-12 at time 1. Results revealed variations in the relationship between father…

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to…

This study examines the effects of social roles, types of action, and concrete situations on people's conceptions of others. In this study, 180 college students were given questionnaires containing short descriptions of interactions between an adult and an adolescent boy. These questionnaires were designed to examine the effects of two role sets…

The report presents an analysis of changes in childbearing plans of young women and the implications of these plans for understanding labor force behavior as well as predicting fertility levels of the population. Data used were derived from the National Longitudinal Study, a nationally representative survey of 5,000 young women born between…