Conditional on Wave-1 verbal ability, years of schooling by Wave 3 and Wave-1 neighborhood disadvantage remain significant predictors of Wave-3 verbal ability¶

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q2 i? Each additional year of schooling is associated with about 0.78 point of Wave-3 verbal ability, and early-life neighborhood disadvantage is negatively associated with later verbal ability. → Guang Guo 2022

Evidence¶

Guang Guo 2022¶

Guang Guo, Meng-Jung Lin and Kathleen Mullan Harris. (2022). Socioeconomic and genomic roots of verbal ability from current evidence. npj Science of Learning 7:22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00137-8

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Table 5 models predict Wave-3 verbal ability conditional on Wave-1 PVT (coefficient 0.49) in the combined sample; most SES measures wash out, but years of education by Wave 3 (p = 0.001) and Wave-1 neighborhood disadvantage remain significant. The article states "It is neighborhood disadvantage in earlier life at Wave 1 rather than at Wave 3 that has turned out to be negatively associated with verbal ability."

"The coefficient of 0.78 implies that an additional year of schooling is associated with about 0.8 point of verbal ability."

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