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Title: Intergenerational Transmission of "Intelligence": Down the Slippery Slopes of the Bell Curve
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Currie, Janet Thomas, Duncan |
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Intergenerational Transmission of "Intelligence": Down the Slippery Slopes of the Bell Curve Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 38,3 (July, 1999): 297-330. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/0019-8676.00131/abstract Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Family Background and Culture; Intelligence; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Herrnstein and Murray report that conditional on maternal "intelligence" (AFQT scores), child test scores are little affected by variations in socioeconomic status. Using the same date, we demonstrate that their finding is very fragile. We explore the effect of adopting a more representative sample of children, including blacks and Latinos, allowing nonlinearities in the relationships and incorporating richer measures of socioeconomic status. Making any one of these changes overturns their finding: Socioeconomic status and child test scores are postively and significantly related. Evidence is presented suggesting AFQT scores are likely better markers for family background than "intelligence." |
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Currie, Janet and Duncan Thomas. "Intergenerational Transmission of "Intelligence": Down the Slippery Slopes of the Bell Curve." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 38,3 (July, 1999): 297-330.
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