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1. Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Is the Effect Nature, Nurture, or Both? Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3483

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World Bank, Washington, DC. and de Walque, Damien

Abstract

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature, more nurture, or both? This paper uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living in households without their biological parents. The data should allow us to separate genetic from environmental parental influences. The non-random 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). They conclude 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. (Contains 2 figures, 6 tables, and 16 footnotes.) [This paper was produced by World Bank Publications.]

Published
2005

2. Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda.

Author

de Walque, Damien, Gertler, Paul J., Bautista-Arredondo, Sergio, Kwan, Ada, Vermeersch, Christel, de Dieu Bizimana, Jean, Binagwaho, Agnès, and Condo, Jeanine

Subjects
*HIV, *MEDICAL consultation, *MEDICAL economics, *CLINICAL indications
Abstract

Paying for performance provides financial rewards to medical care providers for improvements in performance measured by utilization and quality of care indicators. In 2006, Rwanda began a pay for performance scheme to improve health services delivery, including HIV/AIDS services. Using a prospective quasi-experimental design, this study examines the scheme's impact on individual and couples HIV testing. We find a positive impact of pay for performance on HIV testing among married individuals (10.2 percentage points increase). Paying for performance also increased testing by both partners by 14.7 percentage point among discordant couples in which only one of the partners is an AIDS patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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3. Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda.

Author

DE WALQUE, DAMIEN

Subjects
ADOPTIVE parents, ADOPTION, GUARDIAN & ward, EDUCATION of orphans, NATURE & nurture, BIRTHPARENTS, NYARUBUYE Massacre, Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1994, EDUCATION
Abstract

The article presents a study seeking to estimate the effect the education level of adoptive parents has on the schooling outcomes of adopted children in recomposed families in Rwanda. The data drawn from the "Enquête intégrale sur les conditions de vie des ménages au Rwanda, 1999-2001," provides information about the education levels of adoptive parents and schooling levels of the biological parents of the adopted orphans. The research also compares the effect of the adoptive parents' education to that of the absent biological parents to consider nature versus nurture analysis. An investigation comparing the effects of orphan placement among relatives and non-relatives and its relation to adoptive parent education is also presented.

Published
2009
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