Thank you, Herman!

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We find no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis and some suggestion of the compensatory advantage hypothesis.

We build the PGI for (non)cognitive skills and take a life-course approach, looking at 7 educational outcomes from childhood to adulthood. We triangulate findings from the between-, within-family, and trio research designs to identify more robust G×E interactions.

Using NTR data, we test two competing hypotheses: the Scarr-Rowe (Scarr-Salapatek, 1971) from behavioral genetics and the compensatory advantage hypothesis (Bernardi, 2014) from social stratification literature

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All this suggests the presence of a missing compensatory advantage in the case of parental separation. When high-SES parents separate, they fail to compensate for their children's low genetic propensity for education! 5/5

Those who are suffering more in terms of educational attainment from parental separation are high-SES children with a low genetic propensity for education. High-SES kids with non-separated parents achieve college completion and more education despite a low genetic propensity 4/5

We replicate the analysis on the Add Health, and HRS, using two different dependent variables, the probability of college attainment and years of education, and parametric (OLS and logit) and non-parametric models (LOWESS)  3/5

We investigate the *paradoxical finding* of the stronger negative impact of parental separation on educational attainment among high-SES children. Using molecular data, we look at how the parental separation penalty varies by SES and children’s genetic propensity for education 2/5