Word’s worth: Kids with access to books earn more as adults, says study
Children
with access to books are likely to earn more financially as adults than those
who grow up with few or no books, a new study suggests. The research found a
strong association between the earnings of adults and whether they grew up
surrounded by books as kids.
Researchers
from University of Padua in Italy studied 6,000 men born in nine European
countries from the period 1920 to 1956. They looked at whether, at the age of
10, a child lived in a house with fewer than 10 books, a shelf of books, a
bookcase with up to 100 books, two bookcases, or more than two bookcases.
Researchers
found that an additional year of education increased a man’s average lifetime
earnings by 9%. The returns varied markedly according to socio-economic
background, the Guardian reported.
Men
who grew up in houses with less than a shelf of books earned 5% more
as a result of the extra year’s
education, compared with 21% more for those who had access to a lot
of books, researchers said. Those who had access to books were more likely to
move to better-earning opportunities in cities than those without books, they
said.
Researchers said that the number of
books in a house can effectively predict the cognitive test scores of a child,
which are important for economic success in life. The findings were published
in the Economic Journal.
Source | Hindustan
Times | 30 May 2016
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Future Librarianship: Innovation for Excellence (NCFL 2016) on April 23,
2016. The title of the paper is “Removing
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