Sentences with phrase «explaining socioeconomic differences»

Beyond access: Explaining socioeconomic differences in college transfer.

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Additionally, differences in breastfeeding rates, available alternatives to breast milk (e.g. commercially manufactured, derived from animal sources), socioeconomic structure and other environmental and cultural factors may also explain some of the conflicting observations (21).

A reanalysis of the New Zealand data by Ole Røgeberg of the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research in Oslo, however, suggested that the IQ difference could be explained by socioeconomic factors.

Some studies have suggested that the higher odds of breast cancer subtypes with unfavorable prognoses in minority racial / ethnic groups could be explained by differences in socioeconomic status.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

While socioeconomic factors such as income, health insurance and access to health services contribute to those disparities, they can not explain the whole difference.

«A narrower range suggests that socioeconomic factors could explain a substantial portion of the observed differences in hospital readmission rates,» said Nagasako, an instructor of medicine.

Although we addressed this issue in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed differences in patient outcomes.

[12] We investigate the degree to which schools vary in the gap between high and low socioeconomic status students, and then see whether these differences can be explained by differences in the pre-school preparation of high and low socioeconomic status students.

They examined a million American inventors — people who have actually filed patents — and discovered «large disparities... by socioeconomic class, race, and gender» although «differences in ability... explain very little of these disparities.»

In OECD countries generally, a large percentage of between - school variation in student performance is «explained» by differences in students» and schools» socioeconomic circumstances.

To be sure, socioeconomic status and the trappings of poverty are important factors in explaining racial differences in educational achievement.

Beginning with the now - famous evidence reported by Coleman and his colleagues (1966), study after study suggests that socioeconomic status (SES) of families explains more than half of the difference in student achievement across schools; it is also highly related to violence, dropping out of school, entry to postsecondary education and levels of both adult employment and income.

The ALA report points to a number of factors that could explain the disparity, including differences in socioeconomic status, big business behavior and environmental exposure.

The detailed aspects of socioeconomic disadvantage controlled in the study explained much of the difference across groups.

This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.

The remaining difference between childhood family types in educational attainment in 2010 could to some extent be explained by the reversal over time in socioeconomic selection, from positive to negative.