Freakonomics Rev Ed: (and Other Riddles of Modern Life) by Levitt Steven D. & Dubner Stephen J

Author:Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J. [Levitt, Steven D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2006-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

Now, two by two:

Matters:

The child has highly educated parents.

Doesn’t:

The child’s family is intact.

A child whose parents are highly educated typically does well in school; not much surprise there. A family with a lot of schooling tends to value schooling. Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary. But whether a child’s family is intact doesn’t seem to matter. Just as the earlier-cited studies show that family structure has little impact on a child’s personality, it does not seem to affect his academic abilities either, at least in the early years. This is not to say that families ought to go around splitting up willy-nilly. It should, however, offer encouragement to the roughly twenty million American schoolchildren being raised by a single parent.

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