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NPJ SCIENCE OF LEARNING
卷 8, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41539-023-00173-y
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Estimates of shared environmental influence on educational attainment using the Classical Twin Design have been found to overestimate between-family differences in educational opportunity. A new study comparing the Classical Twin Design with the Nuclear Twin and Family Design found that the latter provided a more accurate estimate of shared environmental influence, which was lower than previously thought. Additionally, the study revealed that parental education has no environmental effect on offspring education after accounting for genetic factors.
Estimates of shared environmental influence on educational attainment (EA) using the Classical Twin Design (CTD) have been enlisted as genetically sensitive measures of unequal opportunity. However, key assumptions of the CTD appear violated for EA. In this study we compared CTD estimates of shared environmental influence on EA with estimates from a Nuclear Twin and Family Design (NTFD) in the same 982 German families. Our CTD model estimated shared environmental influence at 43%. After accounting for assortative mating, our best fitting NTFD model estimated shared environmental influence at 26%, disaggregating this into twin-specific shared environments (16%) and environmental influences shared by all siblings (10%). Only the sibling shared environment captures environmental influences that reliably differ between families, suggesting the CTD substantially overestimates between-family differences in educational opportunity. Moreover, parental education was found to have no environmental effect on offspring education once genetic influences were accounted for.
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