Parent-offspring resemblance for educational attainment reduces with increased social class in a global sample: evidence for the compensatory advantage hypothesis
Michael A. Woodley of Menie,
Matthew A. Sarraf,
Mateo Peñaherrera-Aguirre
et al.
Abstract:IntroductionThe degree to which (self-reported) social class predicts parent-offspring resemblance for educational attainment (EA) is examined in a globally representative dataset of 69,116 individuals sourced from 56 countries.MethodsA hierarchical general linear model is used to predict participant EA with the two-way interaction between class and parental EA, after controlling for regional effects, the main effects of age, class, parental EA, and interactions among these.ResultsSocial class-by-parental EA i… Show more
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