"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 …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

, 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 …

very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … gender gaps in most developmental outcomes. As such, the interest is in examining also whether migration-induced resource …-household allocation of resources and risk has also shown that gender differences in the relative burden of risk may be important and that …

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 …

tool not only for encouraging families to enroll their children in school, but also keeping them there. Indeed, the results … performance, to see whether this incentive encourages students (and their parents) to pay more attention to learning. As part of … this, researchers would have to consider what support low-income households might need to monitor and assist their children …

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they …

be realized from investing in pre-primary education ranging from promoting children s school readiness to equalizing …