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

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.