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I'm Karen Hopkins.

We know that reading is good for children, and presumably for adults as well.

Now a new study suggests that just being around books has its benefits,

even if you don't make a point of reading them a lot.

A team of researchers in Australia finds that growing up in a home with a

sizable library enhances literacy, number sense, and even technological know-how in later life.

You can read all about it in the journal Social Science Research.

The researchers were exploring the advantages of scholarly culture. In particular, they were interested in a curious

observation that some call the radiation effect. A radiation effect is a situation where

children grow up around books, but they don't read books, but somehow books benefit them,

even though they don't read them as much as maybe the parents would like

them too.

Joanna Sikora, a sociologist at the Australian National University.

She and her colleagues parsed data collected between 2011 and 2015 by the Organization

for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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