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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students' genetic differences.

Rosa Cheesman, Nicolai Borgen, Astrid M J Sandsør, Paul Hufe

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Rosa CheesmanThe PROMENTA Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-6543-0402
Nicolai BorgenCenter for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), Oslo 0318, Norway.ORCID 0000-0002-7638-3293
Astrid M J SandsørCenter for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), Oslo 0318, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5771-7887
Paul HufeSchool of Economics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom.

Funding

EC | ERC | HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (ERC) 101045526EC | ERC | HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (ERC) 101115949Jacobs Foundation 2023-1510-00Norges Forskningsråd (Forskningsrådet) 325245Norges Forskningsråd (Forskningsrådet) 331640UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) MR/X033333/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate whether better schools can compensate for the effects of children's genetic differences. To this end, we combine data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) with Norwegian register data to estimate the interaction between measures of children's predisposition to education and school quality. We use MoBa's genetic data to compute polygenic indices for educational attainment (

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Educational StatusGene-Environment InteractionSchoolsStudentsChildCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMultifactorial InheritanceNorwayeducationgene–environment interactionpolygenic indicesschool value-added

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PMID41134622
PMCPMC12582282

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