This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence due to parental death, divorce, and the increasing specialization of parental roles in larger families. All three sources of variation yield strikingly similar patterns that show that the strong parent-child correlation in human capital is largely causal. In each case, the parent-child correlation in education is stronger with the parent who spends more time with the child and weaker with the parent who spends relatively less time parenting. These findings help us understand why educated parents spend more time with their children.

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父母的素质重要吗？死亡，离婚和家庭规模对父母影响力变化的人力资本转移证据

本文研究了由于父母死亡，离婚以及父母在大家庭中角色的日益特殊化而产生的父母影响力变化，从而从父母向子女的人力资本转移。所有这三种变异源都产生了惊人相似的模式，表明人力资本中强大的亲子关系在很大程度上是因果关系。在每种情况下，父母与孩子的教育相关性越强，父母与孩子在一起的时间越多，而父母与父母在一起的时间越少，父母间的相关性就越弱。这些发现有助于我们理解为什么受过教育的父母花更多的时间陪伴孩子。