The role of the shared environment in college attainment: An adoption study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

College attainment is one of the few phenotypes to have substantial variance accounted for by environmental factors shared by reared-together relatives. The shared environment is implicated by the consistently strong parent-to-offspring transmission of college attainment. The mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. We use genetically informative methods with a longitudinal, adoption sample to identify possible environmental mechanisms underlying parent-offspring college transmission.

Method

Data were drawn from the Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study (SIBS), which includes 409 adoptive and 208 nonadoptive families, consisting of two offspring followed from adolescence into young adulthood and their rearing parents. Four domains of environmental m

SUBMITTER: Anderson EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10888505 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature