Join us in this episode as we delve into the complex interplay of genetics and environment on a child's educational achievement with Dr. Rosa Cheesman, a leading researcher in the field of behavioral genetics. There's a prevailing theory that a child's environment, comprised of various levels like parents, school, neighborhood, and municipality, interacts with their genetic propensities, influencing their educational success. However, comprehensive tests of this theory across multiple environmental levels have been limited until now.

Dr. Cheesman discusses her team's innovative research where they linked population-wide administrative data on standardized test results, schools, residential identifiers to the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), encompassing over 23,000 genotyped parent-child trios. By using multilevel mo ...