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479. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later

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This chapter examines parenting practices and their actual impact on children's success, emphasizing that factors like IQ and work ethic carry more weight than common beliefs. It humorously highlights the project-oriented mindset of economist parents in relation to their children's early experiences as part of human capital accumulation.

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