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39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting

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Adoptions and the Influence of Parents on Adoptes' Educational Achievements

Sasudote: If twin births and adoptions are accidental experiments that yield useful data, what do those data have to say about the influence of parents? The most important question, which sacerdote went after immediately, was about educational achievement. In the most advantaged families where the parents were college educated, the adoptes were 16 percentage points more likely to attend college than adoptes in the least privileged familiesWhere the parents weren't college graduates.

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