"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 …

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

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they … between income and substitution effects. The paper then reviews the recent empirical literature on the subject. In richer … poorer countries, mostly in Africa and low-income Asia, the outcomes are pro-cyclical: infant mortality rises, and school …

likely to face considerable exposure to uninsured income risk, such resource flows should translate into better risk bearing … very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … income shocks. After accounting for selection into migration, the results indicate that migration has a substantially larger …

"More attention and resources have been devoted in recent years to early childhood development (ECD) in low- and middle-income … countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and …

"There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in … development (ECD) outcomes are important markers of the welfare of children. In addition, the deleterious effects of poor outcomes …