Fig. 2: Correlations between family members’ educational attainment. | Nature Communications

Fig. 2: Correlations between family members’ educational attainment.

From: Understanding indirect assortative mating and its intergenerational consequences for educational attainment

Fig. 2

(Measured as years of education at age 30), stratified by zygosity type (i.e., whether siblings in the parent generation are monozygotic twins [red], dizygotic twins [yellow], or regular full siblings [blue]). Data are presented as correlations with 95% confidence intervals. Source data are provided as a Source Data file and at https://osf.io/dznbk/. Siblings-in-law partner of sibling/twin, co-siblings-in-law partner of siblings-in-law, avuncular sibling/twin of parent, avuncular-in-law partner of sibling/twin of parent.

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