Attractiveness compensates for low status background in the prediction of educational attainment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Bauldry, Shawn ^a   Shanahan, Michael J ^b   Russo, Rosemary ^b   Roberts, Brent W ^c   Damian, Rodica ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL CAPACITY; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RACE; SIBLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; MALE;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE;

EID: 84973909621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155313     Document Type: Article

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