IQ and family background: Are associations strong or weak?

Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Björklund, Anders ^a   Eriksson, Karin Hederos ^b   Jäntti, Markus ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Intergenerational mobility; IQ; Sibling correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957856486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15380645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2349     Document Type: Article

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