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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability
Akresh, Richard - 2012
Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395252
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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability
Akresh, Richard; Bagby, Emilie; De Walque, Damien - 2012
Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550986
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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability
Akresh, Richard - 2017
Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975458
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Parental education and children's schooling outcomes : evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien - In: Economic development and cultural change 57 (2009) 4, pp. 723-746
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015100174
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School feeding programs, intrahousehold allocation and the nutrition of siblings : evidence from a randomized trial in rural Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; De Walque, Damien; Alderman, Harold - In: Journal of development economics 106 (2014), pp. 15-34
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476451
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Parental education and children's schooling outcomes : Is the effect nature, nurture, or both? Evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien - 2005
"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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522715
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Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Is the Effect Nature, Nurture, or Both? Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien - 2006
Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067596
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Parental Education and Children???s Schooling Outcomes : Is the Effect Nature, Nurture, or Both? Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien - 2012
Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553949
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Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien - 2009
In this article, I investigate how educational outcomes of orphans are affected by the education of the family members in their new family. The study uses household survey data from Rwanda that contain a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012562472