Social interaction and children's academic test scores: Evidence from the National Child Development Study

Sarah Brown () and Karl Taylor ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, vol. 71, issue 2, pages 563-574

Abstract: We explore the relationship between educational attainment and social interaction using individual level data from the British National Child Development Study. To be specific, we analyze whether an intergenerational aspect to this relationship exists by examining the relationship between the educational attainment of children and the degree of formal social activity undertaken by their parents. Our results suggest that children's scores in reading, mathematics and vocabulary tests are positively associated with the extent of their parents' formal social interaction, and this relationship is robust to alternative definitions of social interaction.

Keywords: Education; Human; capital; Social; capital; Social; interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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