Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51665
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5324
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
sociability
intergenerational correlations
occupational characteristics
JEL: 
J24
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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