Parental influences, particularly parents’ occupations, may influence individuals’ entry into the teaching profession. This mechanism may contribute to the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately likely to become teachers themselves and whether the intergenerational transmission of teaching varies by race or sex. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are seven percentage points more likely to enter teaching than children of nonteachers. The transmission of teaching from mother to child is about the same for White children and for Black daughters; however, transmission rates for Hispanic daughters are even larger while those for Black sons are near zero.

父母的影响，尤其是父母的职业，可能会影响个人进入教学行业。随着时间的流逝，这种机制可能会导致教师力量的相对静态的人口组成。我们通过测试教师的子女是否自己成比例地成为教师，以及代际传授的教学是否因种族或性别而异，来评估父母对职业选择的影响。总体而言，母亲为老师的孩子比非老师的孩子更有可能上课七个百分点。白人孩子和黑人女儿从母婴传授的知识几乎相同。但是，西班牙裔女儿的传播率更高，而黑人儿子的传播率接近零。