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Parental Education and Children’s Schooling Outcomes : Is the Effect Nature, Nurture, or Both? Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The data a...

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Main Author: de Walque, Damien
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ABANDONED CHILDREN
ADOPTED CHILDREN
ADOPTIVE FAMILIES
ADOPTIVE PARENTS
ADULTS
AGED
CHILD LABOR
CITIES
DEMOGRAPHY
DISCRIMINATION
EARLY CHILDHOOD
EXTENDED FAMILIES
FAMILIES
FAMILY STRUCTURE
FATHERS
FOSTER FAMILIES
GIRLS
HUMAN RIGHTS
INFANTS
LAWS
LIVING CONDITIONS
MALES
MALNUTRITION
MOTHERS
ORPHANAGES
ORPHANS
PARENTS
POPULATION STUDIES
POWER
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
TWINS
UNAIDS
WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5601710/parental-education-childrens-schooling-outcomes-effect-nature-nurture-or-both-evidence-recomposed-families-rwanda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8894

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5601710/parental-education-childrens-schooling-outcomes-effect-nature-nurture-or-both-evidence-recomposed-families-rwanda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8894

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