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Social Interaction and Intergenerational Skill Transfer

Sarah Brown (sarah.brown@sheffield.ac.uk) and Karl Taylor

No 2006013, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

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. In accordance with the existing literature, our results support a positive association between education and social interaction. Furthermore, 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. This relationship is robust to controlling for the degree of intra-family based social interaction and the social activities of the child.

Keywords: Education; Human Capital; Social Capital; Social Interaction. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2006-10, Revised 2006-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hrm, nep-soc and nep-ure
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