The genetic and environmental effects on school grades in late childhood and adolescence.

As academic achievement can have a major impact on the development of social inequalities we set out to explore how performance differences arise. Using data of the German twin study TwinLife, genetic and environmental effects on school grades in mathematics, German and the grade point average in tw...

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Main Authors: Eike Friederike Eifler, Alexandra Starr, Rainer Riemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225946