The Roots of Success: Why Children Follow in their Parents' Career Footsteps

Parents exert a definite and strong influence on their children in terms of personality, but do they influence them in terms of economics and occupation as well? This study maintains that children's occupational choice is indeed related, in a systematic fashion, to the influence of their parents. The Roots of Success presents the first consistent theory of "occupational following" from an economic perspective.Bernard F. Lentz is the author of 'The Roots of Success: Why Children Follow in their Parents' Career Footsteps', published 1985 under ISBN 9780275901325 and ISBN 0275901327.