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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Sci. 2015 Feb 25;2(6):82–105. doi: 10.15195/v2.a6

Table 4.

Regression Models of Respondent’s Total Years of Completed Education with Standard Errors Robust to Clustering on Family ID, by Sample

Framingham Heart Study (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Female sex 0.36 (0.12) 0.38 (0.13) 0.35 (0.12) 0.38 (0.13) 0.35 (0.12) 0.35 (0.12)
Age 0.01 (0.01) −0.01 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01) −0.01 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01) 0.01 (0.01)
Mother’s highest grade completed 0.35 (0.03) 0.34 (0.03) 0.35 (0.03) 0.34 (0.03)
Respondent’s educ. genetic score, std. 0.27 (0.07) 0.12* (0.07) 0.16* (0.08)
Mother’s educ. genetic score, std. 0.17* (0.08) 0.02 (0.07) −0.06 (0.09)
Constant 9.34 (0.62) 14.88 (0.45) 9.50 (0.63) 14.88 (0.44) 9.37 (0.64) 9.48 (0.64)
R2 0.14 0.03 0.15 0.02 0.14 0.15
R2 for score w/out other controls 0.02 0.01
Health and Retirement Study (1) (2) (3)

Female sex −0.32 (0.06) −0.40 (0.03) −0.30 (0.06)
Age −0.01* (0.00) −0.04 (0.00) −0.01 (0.00)
Survey year 0.02 (0.01) 0.00 (0.01) 0.02 (0.01)
Mother’s highest grade completed 0.30 (0.01) 0.28 (0.01)
Resp. educational genetic score, std. 0.41 (0.03) 0.33 (0.03)
Constant −34.61 (26.71) −84.04 (28.04) −43.16 (26.44)
R2 0.14 0.05 0.16
R2 for score w/out other controls 0.03

Note:

*

p < 0.05;

p < 0.01.

Framingham Heart Study N=968; 460 Families. Health and Retirement Study N=6,186; 4,867 Families.