The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes

By Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2002

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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School Quality and Family Background in Italy. Discussion Paper Series. (2005, background): “Sacerdote (2002) finds that being raised in a family with high socio-economic status greatly increases the probability that a child will attend college.3 An important but somewhat overlooked question is how school quality and family background interact in the production of individual human capital.”
Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations (2016, unknown): “Nevertheless, there is also evidence from the economic literature that cognitive skills are shaped by environmental factors, such as educational activities in the family or parenting style (e.g., Sacerdote 2002; Plug and Vijverberg 2003; Ermisch 2008; Fiorini and Keane 2014).”
Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities (2010, background): “Cognitive skills may on the other hand be transmitted by a positive productivity effect of parental education, or "nurture" (e.g. Sacerdote 2002, Plug and Vijverberg 2003, Ermisch 2008).2 Higher parental investment by more able parents could lead to better health and education of their offspring,…”
The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling (2006, unknown): “Sacerdote (2002, 2004) compares outcomes of adoptees who were randomly assigned to their adoptive parents.”
Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios (2013, unknown): “[74] Sacerdote, Bruce, 2002, The nature and nurture of economic outcomes, American Economic Review 92, 344-348.”
Parental Education and Child's Education: A Natural Experiment (2004, background): “Sacerdote (2002) and Plug (2004) compare adopted and natural children to estimate the causal effect of parental education.”
Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents (2007, background): “Sacerdote (2002) argues that a college-educated adoptive mother is associated with a 7% increase in the probability that the adopted child graduates from college. results are quite disparate and a consensus has not formed yet (see Holmlund, Lindahl, and Plug 2010).”
Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk Taking (2009, background): “Later papers in this procession, based on either twins or adoptees, include Behrman and Taubman (1989), Plug and Vijverberg (2003), Björklund, Lindahl and Plug (2006), Björklund, Jäntti and Solon (2007) and Sacerdote (2002, 2007).”
Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany – The Last Five Decades (2007, background): “…A separate literature addresses whether it is the inheritance of genes that drives intergenerational correlation patterns ("nature") or whether a productivity effect of parental education matters ("nurture") (e.g. Oreopoulos et al. 2006, Sacerdote 2002, Plug and Vijverberg 2003, Black et al. 2005).”
Neighborhood effects and parental involvement in the intergenerational transmission of education (2011, background): “Most studies have found that school quality (e.g., Card and Krueger, 1992, 1996, and Hanushek, 2002) and family background (e.g., Ermisch and Francesconi, 2001, Sacerdote, 2002, Plug and Vijverberg, 2003) have a signi ﬁ cant and positive impact on the level of education of children.”