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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? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …
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parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from … 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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, specifically locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools, into committees and gives these powers … members in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children … teacher effort or learning outcomes in those schools. However, the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to …
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The ages of first union and of first parenting are of considerable interest, not only because of their implications for individual welfare and well-being over the life cycle, but also because they are strongly associated with fertility patterns that are thought to have important implications for...
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paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … benefiting the most. Almost 70 percent of the variance in children's education can be accounted for by parental education and …
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic location, ethnicity, household wealth, and women’s education. However, on...
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on students learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation. …
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This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first part provides a review of the evidence on these...
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This paper addresses the underlying causes of problems and risks faced by poor and excluded youth of 10-24 years of age. The authors develop a survey instrument that addresses poverty in a broad sense, including hunger, early pregnancy and fatherhood, violence, crime, drug use, low levels of...
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