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I didn't see any reason why these differences might not be genetic: genes cause changes in the brain which cause changes in academic achievement which cause soc

I didn't see any reason why these differences might not be genetic: genes cause changes in the brain which cause changes in academic achievement which cause socio-economic status. It would be interesting to see studies that isolated the effects of genes and environment.

s0uthPaw88 11y ago
There are a number of natural experiments that researchers have used to examine this question: [1]A study looking at the performance of Korean-American adopted children relative to their siblings: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10894 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10894 [2]The impact of various welfare programs on student achievement: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208322/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3208322/
davorak 11y ago
> It would be interesting to see studies that isolated the effects of genes and environment. The colorado adoption project can be good source of that type of information, in my limit understanding, example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7755514 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7755514