"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 …

, 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 …

chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …"Vermeersch and Kremer examine the effects of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement …, and school finance in a developing country setting. They use data from a program that was implemented in 25 randomly …

Providing at least basic education to all children especially those coming from poor or disadvantaged families is an … the measures that will secure access to quality education for all children above all to those who are under higher risk of … basic children's right- access to education; chapter five and six sets paths for making chosen policy options sustainable …

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 …

"This paper estimates the relationship between family background, school characteristics, and student achievement in … primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database … is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools …

important fact that has been left out of the debate on Pakistani education. Moreover, when the authors look at school choice …) child to a public or private school or both. Widely promoted theories simply do not explain this substantial variation …