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050 00 $aHG3881.5.W57
100 1 $aWalque, Damien de.
245 10 $aParental education and children's schooling outcomes$h[electronic resource] :$bIs the effect nature, nurture, or both? Evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda /$cDamien de Walque.
260 $a[Washington, D.C. :$bWorld Bank,$c2005]
490 1 $aPolicy research working paper ;$v3483
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 1/10/2005.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The data allows him to separate genetic from environmental parental influences. The nonrandom placement of children is controlled by including the educational attainment of the absent biological parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their ©adoptive♯ families. The results of the analysis suggest that the nurture component of the intergenerational transmission of human capital is important for both parents, contrary to recent evidence proposed by Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) and Plug (2004). The author concludes that mothers' education had no environmental impact on children's schooling. Interestingly, mothers' education matters more for girls, while fathers' education is more important for boys. Finally, an important policy recommendation in the African context emerges from the analysis: the risk for orphans or abandoned children to lose ground in their schooling achievements is minimized if they are placed with relatives. This paper--a product of the Public Services Team, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of education and its intergenerational transmission"--World Bank web site.
650 0 $aParents$zRwanda$xEducation.
650 0 $aChildren$zRwanda$xEducation.
650 0 $aHouseholds$zRwanda.
710 2 $aWorld Bank.
830 0 $aPolicy research working papers (Online) ;$v3483.
856 40 $uhttp://www.econ.worldbank.org/view.php?type=5&id=41070