Research on 6000 people on what benefits the children grew up surrounded by many books

ByErik Schepers

E-books have the potential to promote reading of children who do not like itclearlyAlthough it is becoming, the survey result that the child raised in the environment surrounded by the paper book has more income earned in his / her lifetime than the child which is not so is known.

Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Earnings in Europe - Brunello - 2016 - The Economic Journal - Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12307/abstract

Boys who live with books 'earn more as adults' | Education | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/may/29/boys-books-earnings-adults


Rome's philosopher Cicero of Caesar and his contemporaries has left the saying that "a room without a book is like a body without a soul", but Giorgio who is studying economics at Padova University in Italy Mr. Brunello, Guglielmo Weber, and Christoph Weiss say that "A room without books is also a manifestation of the hardships to come."

Mr. Brunello conducted a survey on 9,000 European countries and 6,000 people in order to investigate the relationship between the income earned by a human being for his / her lifetime and the family environment of a child. For the 37 years from 1920 to 1956 when the graduation age of compulsory education was raised throughout Europe, as of the age of 10, "There are ten books placed at home", "There was a bookshelf", "100 volumes" "There were fewer than 200 books", "There were more than 200 books" We studied income for each family environment.

As a result of the survey, when receiving higher education in addition to compulsory education, it turned out that the average income per year of higher education increased by 9% compared with those who received only compulsory education. However, among the people receiving higher education, it turned out that the income is significantly different due to differences in the home environment. For example, those who grew up in families with few books had an increase in revenue of 5% even after receiving higher education, but the number of people who grew up surrounded by many books increased by 21%. It turned out that this tendency is strongly seen especially in the countryside.

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Also, there are opportunities for those who grew up surrounded by books to meet more profitable occupations. Furthermore, it is also known that those with a large number of books at home tend to take office jobs rather than manual labor.

Regarding why books affect income, Mr. Brunello said: "Books promote children's reading habits and reading has a positive effect on school performance. Families filled with books have socio-economic advantages It can be said that it is a situation. " Moreover, it is possible to estimate the score of the cognitive ability test of children raised in the family to some extent by the number of books in the home. In other words, how much improvement of cognitive skills and socio-economic skills important for economic success in later life has been shown to be greatly influenced by the childhood family environment.