If the report is negative, countries like the Netherlands and Germany that are opposed to the admission of Romania into the Schengen area could use the results as an argument against the country's entry.
Controlling for age increases the negative country-specific effect, since young people living in the parental home are younger in France, and since younger adults spend less time on domestic activities than older ones.
Instead, the relationship seemed negative: Countries with higher degrees of TIMSS content implementation tended to have lower average achievement scores.
There was a strong negative country-level correlation between mean height and the differences in height between the richest and poorest wealth quintile (r = −0.4242, p = 0.0014) such that countries that are shorter on average also tend to have smaller gaps in height between the richest and the poorest wealth quintile (Figure 1).
The relationship between fertility of the two generations is also weakly negative; countries with relatively small average values in either generation tend to have higher correlations, suggesting that the cross-sectional relationship is not associated with high levels of fertility.
After a certain threshold level, the effect becomes negative, influencing countries' production factors.
This reversal isconsistent with the hypothesis that the association of these variables is positivebetween but negative within countries.
As far as macro outcomes are concerned, simple correlations linking trust and unemployment point to strong negative cross-country associations.
By analyzing all seven waves of the European Social Survey (2002 2014), we demonstrate that declining macroeconomic performance has a negative within-country effect on trust in national parliament.
This negative cross-country association between productivity and the share of employment allocated to small plants is consistent with previous works.
However, it is also evident that after a certain threshold level (i.e., certain number of disaster occurrences), the effect becomes negative influencing countries' production factors.
