Education in time: cohort differences in educational attainment in African-American twins.

OBJECTIVES:Educational opportunities for African-Americans expanded throughout the 20(th) century. Twin pairs are an informative population in which to examine changes in educational attainment because each twin has the same parents and childhood socioeconomic status. We hypothesized that correlatio...

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Main Authors: Sarah L Szanton, Brandon Johnson, Roland J Thorpe, Keith Whitfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2765648?pdf=render