Parental Guidance and Supervised Learning
提出一个监督学习的理论模型，解释父母在保护孩子与让孩子从错误中学习之间的权衡，并分析最优育儿策略及其比较静态性质，有助于理解行为遗传学中的经验现象。
We propose a simple theoretical model of supervised learning that is potentially useful to interpret a number of empirical phenomena relevant to the nature-nurture debate. The model captures a basic trade-off between sheltering the child from the consequences of his mistakes and allowing him to learn from experience. We characterize the optimal parenting policy and its comparative-statics properties. We then show that key features of the optimal policy can be useful to interpret provocative findings from behavioral genetics.