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Teamwork as an Essential Component of High-Reliability Organizations by Baker, David P., Day, Rachel, Salas, Eduardo

“…Organizations are increasingly becoming dynamic and unstable. This evolution has given rise to greater reliance on teams and increased complexity in terms of…”
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The Education Effect on Population Health: A Reassessment by Baker, David P., Leon, Juan, Smith Greenaway, Emily G., Collins, John, Movit, Marcela

“…Demographic research frequently reports consistent and significant associations between formal educational attainment and a range of health risks such as…”
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An evolving international research collaboration network: spatial and thematic developments in co-authored higher education research, 1998–2018 by Fu, Yuan Chih, Marques, Marcelo, Tseng, Yuen-Hsien, Powell, Justin J. W., Baker, David P.

“…Co-authored research articles in the disciplinarily heterogeneous field of higher education have dramatically increased in this century. As in other fields,…”
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Understanding the association between maternal education and use of health services in Ghana: exploring the role of health knowledge by Greenaway, Emily Smith, Leon, Juan, Baker, David P

“…This paper examines the role of health knowledge in the association between mothers' education and use of maternal and child health services in Ghana. The…”
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The Role of Objective Numeracy and Fluid Intelligence in Sex-Related Protective Behaviors by Dieckmann, Nathan F, Peters, Ellen, Leon, Juan, Benavides, Martin, Baker, David P, Norris, Alison

“…A wealth of studies has indicated that greater cognitive ability is related to healthier behaviors and outcomes throughout the lifespan. In the present paper,…”
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Socioeconomic Status, School Quality, and National Economic Development: A Cross‐National Analysis of the “Heyneman‐Loxley Effect” on Mathematics and Science Achievement by Baker, David P., Goesling, Brian, LeTendre, Gerald K.

“…Based on 1970s data, the "Heyneman-Loxley (HL) effect" proposed that in developing nations, school variables were more important than family socioeconomic…”
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The great antagonism that never was: unexpected affinities between religion and education in post-secular society by Baker, David P.

“…A persistent sociological thesis posits that the spread of formal education causes an inevitable decline in religion as a social institution and diminishes…”
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Worldwide Shadow Education: Outside-School Learning, Institutional Quality of Schooling, and Cross-National Mathematics Achievement by Baker, David P., Akiba, Motoko, LeTendre, Gerald K., Wiseman, Alexander W.

“…The growth of structured, outside-school activities for improving students' mathematics achievement is an enduring feature of modern schooling with major…”
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The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University by Powell, Justin J. W, Baker, David P, Fernandez, Frank

“…The Century of Science, a multicultural, international team of authors examine the global rise of scholarly research in science, technology, engineering,…”
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Education, health, and labor force supply: Broadening human capital for national development in Malawi by Smith, William C., Ikoma, Sakiko, Baker, David P.

“…Education and health are both capital investments in national development, often viewed as independent factors on a country's labor force supply and…”
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Engineering a World Class University? The Impact of Taiwan’s World Class University Project on Scientific Productivity by Fu, Yuan-Chih, Baker, David P., Zhang, Liang

“…High profile, university excellence initiatives are becoming increasingly popular national R&D policies globally, with 23 nations implementing some form of an…”
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Student victimization: National and school system effects on school violence in 37 nations by Akiba, Motoko, u.a

“…School violence is a problem in many nations, and rates of school violence in the United States are not among the highest in the world. The authors utilize a…”
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A meta-analysis of education effects on chronic disease: The causal dynamics of the Population Education Transition Curve by Smith, William C., Anderson, Emily, Salinas, Daniel, Horvatek, Renata, Baker, David P.

“…As the Epidemiological Transition progresses worldwide, chronic diseases account for the majority of deaths in developed countries and a rising proportion in…”
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Slouching towards Decentralization: Consequences of Globalization for Curricular Control in National Education Systems by Astiz, M. Fernanda, Wiseman, Alexander W, Baker, David P

“…The mingling of economic and institutional globalization forces with existing national education structures produces various paradoxical mixes of decentralized…”
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Cyber Charter Schools and Growing Resource Inequality among Public Districts: Geospatial Patterns and Consequences of a Statewide Choice Policy in Pennsylvania, 2002-2014 by Mann, Bryan, Baker, David P

“…An analysis from 2002 to 2014, aligning media reporting of the effectiveness of the fully online K-12 cyber charter school model with data on enrollment flows…”
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Schooling, numeracy, and wealth accumulation: A study involving an agrarian population by Estrada‐Mejia, Catalina, Peters, Ellen, Dieckmann, Nathan F., Zeelenberg, Marcel, De Vries, Marieke, Baker, David P.

“…Accumulating wealth is one of the main concerns for consumers. Higher education is widely associated with higher wealth, but the underlying reasons for this…”
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The Globalized “Whole Child”: Cultural Understandings of Children and Childhood in Multilateral Aid Development Policy, 1946–2010 by SCHAUB, MARYELLEN, HENCK, ADRIENNE, BAKER, DAVID P.

“…Current global conceptions of childhood dictate that all children are entitled to a childhood that provides protection, preparation, and child development for…”
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A note on knowledge in the schooled society: Towards an end to the crisis in curriculum theory by Baker, David P

“…Michael Young's recent paper in this journal is correct; there is a profound crisis in curriculum theory, and to be intellectually viable into the future the…”
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Education for All: Global Promises, National Challenges by Baker, David P, Wiseman, Alexander W

“…Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national…”
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Forward and backward, horizontal and vertical: Transformation of occupational credentialing in the schooled society by Baker, David P.

“…Underdeveloped theory about educational credentialing flies in the face of the immense practice of educational degree attainment by ever increasing proportions…”
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