Is the Effect of Parental Education on Offspring Biased or Moderated by Genotype?

ABSTRACT: Parental education is the strongest measured predictor of offspring education, and thus many scholars see the parent-child correlation in educational attainment as an important measure of social mobility. But if social changes or policy interventions are going to have dynastic effects, we need to know what accounts for this intergenerational association, that is, whether it is primarily environmental or genetic in origin. Thus, to understand whether the estimated social influence of parental education on offspring education is biased owing to genetic inheritance (or moderated by it), we exploit the findings from a recent large genome-wide association study of educational attainment to construct a genetic score designed to predict educational attainment. Using data from two independent samp

SUBMITTER: Conley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5644503 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature