There's a spike in births among certain communities across the globe during that year. Children born in the year of the dragon to chinese or chinese american families do get more education, they have better life im out comes then non dragon year children. If you are living in a culture where someone says, hay, this is a lucky year, and then you're lucky enough to be having a kid that year, then maybe making decisions about whether one is g get extra tutoring,. You give it to the munky kid, right? Because, you know, they're a dragon.