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The next three chapters of this book summarise evidence on the transmission of personality characteristics from parents to children. This theme is important because, if it was the case that personality characteristics were not transmitted between generations, then a welfare state that boosts the number of children born to employment-resistant claimants would not affect the personality profile of the population. The child of a welfare claimant would be just as likely to become a conscientious and agreeable ‘solid citizen’ as the child of an employed person.
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Perkins, A. (2016). Childhood Disadvantage and Employment-Resistance. In: The Welfare Trait. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137555298_5
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