Educational attainment of 25 year old Norwegians according to birth order and gender

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-136

  Kristensen, Petter ^a,b   Bjerkedal, Tor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Birth order; Education; Gender; Intelligence; Within family analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149094587     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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