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Perhaps the more interesting fact is how much the percent of
variance attributable to nurture varies across different outcomes.
When I consider graduating from a US News ranked college, family
environment explains 25 percent of the variation, instead of the 14 Source: Sacerdote (2007)
FROM TABLE VII
ASSIGNMENT TO HIGH EDUCATION, SMALL FAMILY Child’s years of education
Child has 4 years college
Log child’s household income
Child four-year college ranked by
US News
Acceptance rate of child’s college
Child drinks (yes/no)
Child smokes (yes/no)
Child’s BMI
Child overweight
Child obese
Child has asthma
Number of children
Child is married Treatment effect
high education
small family vs.
large, less
educated Nonadoptees: High
education small
family vs. large,
less educated Effect from a 1
standard deviation
change in family
environment index 0.314 (0.226)
0.060 (0.056)
0.071 (0.081)
0.082 (0.052) 0.749 (0.245)**
0.161 (0.057)**
0.113 (0.089)
0.231 (0.060)** 2.157 (0.264)**
0.317 (0.031)**
0.210 (0.089)*
0.365 (0.052)** 0.845
0.179
0.263
0.224 0.007 (0.035)
0.099 (0.050)*
0.013 (0.044)
0.509 (0.460)
0.030 (0.047)
0.020 (0.023)
0.005 (0.028)
0.070 (0.099)
0.014 (0.050) 0.016 (0.036)
0.178 (0.049)**
0.006 (0.048)
0.941 (0.468)*
0.077 (0.045)
0.044 (0.018)*
0.013 (0.031)
0.199 (0.103)*
0.000 (0.056) 0.053 (0.032)
0.229 (0.041)**
0.075 (0.024)**
0.929 (0.498)
0.088 (0.048)
0.037 (0.018)*
0.005 (0.034)
0.580 (0.132)**
0.092 (0.053) 0.098
0.280
0.162
1.224
0.121
0.047
0.085
0.267
0.123 I split the sample into three groups: High education small families are defined as those with three or fewer children in which both the mother and father have a college degree
(Type 1). Twenty-seven percent of adoptees are assigned to such a family. Large lesser educated families are defined as those with four or more children and where neither parent
has a college degree (Type 3). Thirteen percent of adoptees are assigned to such a family. The remaining families (which are either small or have a parent with a college...
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- Fall '13
- NicoleFortin
- Economics, Household income in the United States, IgE
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