Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?

Tsunao Okumura and Emiko Usui

No 5324, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, lacks detailed information on parents; to remedy this deficiency, we construct a measure of parents' "sociability" skills based on their occupational characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by gender, but remains statistically significant (especially between fathers and sons), even after controlling for a variety of other background characteristics.

Keywords: intergenerational correlations; occupational characteristics; sociability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2010-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm and nep-soc
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Published - published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116

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Journal Article: Do Parents’ Social Skills Influence Their Children’s Sociability? (2014)
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