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? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …

on students learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation. …

main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … hourly labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …

who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in … indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income … growth can be unbundled, and the contributions of income components to overall pro-poorness identified. An application to …

distribution of income, and to economic growth. New empirical results show the importance of both minimal and high-level skills …

preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison …