"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 …

, 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 …

Most parents know, instinctively, that spending more time with their children and being actively involved in their … education will give their children a good head-start in life. But as many parents have to juggle competing demands at work and … at home, there never seems to be enough time. Often, too, parents are reluctant to offer to help their children with …

surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …

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 …

At some point in their child’s education, many parents have considered whether it would be worth the expense to enrol … their child in a private school. For parents, private schools may offer a particular kind of instruction that is not … available in public schools. If private schools also attract higher-performing students and better teachers than public schools …