"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their 'adoptive 'families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …

, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children … for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household … socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with …

complex than the biological relationship of parents to children in both Sweden and the United States"--Forschungsinstitut zur …"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than … children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

Children need a safe, nurturing, healthy, and stimulating environment to thrive and reach their full potential. But … millions of children living in poverty don't receive enough stimulation or good nutrition in their first years of life, and … addressed in programs promoting young children's development, which also typically focus on mothers, with little attention on …