Environmental and Innate Factors and Educational Attainment

Abstract

p76-conclusions: 1) "influence of educational factors on educational attainment is greater at the younget ages, and gets progressively less influential as the children get older;" 2) social factors "disappear" by age 17-8; 3) "home and neighbourhood...particularly those associated with maternal care and material needs" higher effect than "walls of school;" 4) "stronger association between the intelligence test results and [p77] the 'home' variables suggest that their primacy of effect might be due largely to genetic factors;" 5) "adverse forces in the environment have their greatest effect on the most able children."