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The Importance of Genetics in Parenting

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I'm curious if this has made you more humble as an economist in terms of policy prescription. I've started working much more on things which are more or less just descriptive rather than saying because of this causal relationship we should do X. We've had Brian Kaplan on the program and Brian's a very vocal advocate for having children number one, which is not what your books about. But he also believes that one of the reasons you should have more children is that parenting is not very important. It belies a huge amount of social science about the importance of circumstance to outcomes.

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