Intergenerational effects of parental educational attainment on parenting and childhood educational outcomes: Evidence from MoBa using within-family Mendelian randomization.

父母教育程度对育儿和儿童教育结果的代际影响 ： 使用家庭内孟德尔随机化的 MoBa 证据。

• 发表时间: Sep 2023 21
• 来源期刊: medRxiv
• DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.22.23285699
• PMID: 36865116
• 文章类型: Preprint
• 作者列表: Havdahl A,Hughes AM,Sanderson E,Ask H,Cheesman R,Reichborn-Kjennerud T,Andreassen OA,Corfield EC,Hannigan L,Magnus P,Njølstad PR,Stoltenberg C,Torvik FA,Brandlistuen R,Smith GD,Ystrom E,Davies NM

关键词: Mendelian randomization; MoBa; dynastic effects; educational attainment; indirect genetic effects

Abstract

The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment from parents to their children is one of the most important and studied relationships in social science. Longitudinal studies have found strong associations between parents\' and their children\'s educational outcomes, which could be due to the effects of parents. Here we provide new evidence about whether parents\' educational attainment affects their parenting behaviours and children\'s early educational outcomes using within-family Mendelian randomization and data from 40,879 genotyped parent-child trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort (MoBa) study. We found evidence suggesting that parents\' educational attainment affects their children\'s educational outcomes from age 5 to 14. More studies are needed to provide more samples of parent-child trios and assess the potential consequences of selection bias and grandparental effects.

摘要

从父母到子女的教育程度的代际传递是社会科学中最重要和研究的关系之一。纵向研究发现，父母与子女的教育成果之间存在很强的关联，这可能是由于父母的影响。在这里，我们使用家庭内孟德尔随机化和来自挪威母亲的40,907个基因型亲子三重奏的数据，提供了关于父母的教育程度是否会影响他们的育儿行为和孩子的早期教育结果的新证据。父亲和孩子队列（MoBa）研究。我们发现有证据表明，父母的教育程度会影响孩子从5岁到14岁的教育结果。需要更多的研究来提供更多的亲子三重奏样本，并评估选择偏见和祖父母效应的潜在后果。