#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs

<p>Everybody knows that good parenting has a big impact on how kids turn out. Except that maybe they don't, because it doesn't.</p><p>Incredible though it might seem, according to today's guest — economist Bryan Caplan, the author of Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, The Myth of the Rational Voter, and The Case Against Education — the best evidence we have on the question suggests that, within reason, what parents do has little impact on how their children's lives play out once they're adults.</p><p>Links to learn more, summary and full transcript.</p><p> Of course, kids do r...