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Parental education and children's schooling outcomes : Is the effect nature, nurture, or both? Evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda
Walque, Damien de - 2005
"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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522715
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Different Paths to Student Learning : Good Practices and Student Performance - Identifying Success from Municipal School Systems in Brazil
World Bank - 2012
education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553001
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Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil
Bourguignon, François - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523263
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Schooling and labor market impacts of a natural policy experiment
Sakellariou, Chris N. - 2004
"Patrinos and Sakellariou use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522875
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Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98 : / quantile regression evidence
Arabsheibani, G. R. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523290
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
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School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation
Kremer, Michael - 2005
chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …
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Education achievements and school efficiency in rural Bangladesh
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010525693