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Schools as Moderators of Genetic Associations with Life Course Attainments: Evidence from the WLS and Add Health

Sam Trejo, Daniel W. Belsky, Jason Boardman, Jeremy Freese, Kathleen Harris, Pam Herd, Kamil Sicinski, Benjamin W. Domingue

Sociological Science · 2018

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Summary

Genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies of educational attainment have been linked with a range of positive life course development outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether school environments may moderate these genetic associations. We analyze data from two biosocial surveys that contain both genetic data and follow students from secondary school through mid- to late life. We test if the magnitudes of the associations with educational and occupational attainments varied across the secondary schools that participants attended or with characteristics of those schools. Although we find little evidence that genetic associations with educational and occupational attainment varied across schools or with school characteristics, genetic associations with any postsecond

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.15195/v5.a22
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7nvbl-dn9omg
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