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Study Links Parental Support & Career Success of Children

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https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/05/parental-s...r-success/

EXCERPT: A recent study finds that young people who get financial support from their parents have greater professional success, highlighting one way social inequality is transmitted from one generation to the next. “The question underlying this work was whether parental support gives adult children an advantage or hinders their development,” says Anna Manzoni, an associate professor of sociology at North Carolina State University and author of a paper on the work....

MORE: https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/05/parental-s...r-success/
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Can't find if they controlled for intact families or not. Intact families are themselves high predictors of success, and so is family income. So it seems their claim is a few too many steps above fundamental causation.
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