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"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 …
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, 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 …
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surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
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provision -- Parent and community "voice" in schools -- What do the students say? -- The demand dimensions : concluding issues …
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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 …
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This book aims to contribute to the World Bank's education agenda by communicating research findings on the impact of education quality on economic growth. Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann show that indeed the quality of education, rather than mere access to education, is what impacts economic...
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The following report is the first of a two-stage video study to examine teaching practices and activities in Indonesian classrooms. The first stage is linked to results of the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) where 100 of the 150 classes that participated in the...
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