Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitudes and Personality Traits
利用德国SOEP数据，研究发现父母参与度越高，子女的经济偏好、态度和人格特质越有利，且与父母在这些特征上更相似。
Abstract We empirically investigate the link between parental involvement and shaping of the economic preferences, attitudes and personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and locus of control of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our results show that parents who are more involved in the upbringing of their children have children with more favourable attitudes and traits. These children rank higher in traits that further their success in life, and they are more similar to their parents in those attitudes, where the optimum level is more ambiguous.