Decoupling Genetics from Attainments: The Role of Social Environments

Pages: 817163
Published: Oct 24, 2019
Abstract
null This paper examines the extent to which growing up in a socially mobile environment might decouple genetic endowments related to educational attainment with actual attainments. Many models of intergenerational transmission of advantage contain both a transmission channel through endowments (i.e. genetics) from parents to children as well as from parental investments and “luck”. Indeed, many scholars consider the intergenerational links due...
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Title
Decoupling Genetics from Attainments: The Role of Social Environments
Published Date
Oct 24, 2019
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Pages
817163
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