Estimating effects of parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills on offspring education using polygenic scores

Estimating effects of parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills on offspring education using polygenic scores

Understanding how parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills influence their children’s educational trajectories is important for educational, family and economic policy. Here, the authors investigate parental influence on children’s education using genetic approaches.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Perline A. Demange, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Abdel Abdellaoui, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Margherita Malanchini, Benjamin W. Domingue, Emma Armstrong-Carter, Eveline L. de Zeeuw, Kaili Rimfeld, Dorret I. Boomsma, Elsje van Bergen, Gerome Breen, Michel G. Nivard, Rosa Cheesman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32003-x

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32003-x

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