Parental education and children's schooling outcomes : is the effect nature, nurture, or both? evidence from recomposed families in Rwanda
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Children and Youth; Public Health Promotion; Population&Development; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Gender and Social Development; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Youth and Governance; Street Children; Population&Development; Children and Youth;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2005-01-16 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2005-01-16 (Development)
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- NEP-LAB-2005-01-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2005-01-16 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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