A Quasi-Experimental Study of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Academic Achievement

Autor/inn/en	D'Onofrio, Brian M.; Singh, Amber L.; Iliadou, Anastasia; Lambe, Mats; Hultman, Christina M.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Langstrom, Niklas; Lichtenstein, Paul
Titel	A Quasi-Experimental Study of Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy and Offspring Academic Achievement
Quelle	In: Child Development, 81 (2010) 1, S.80-100 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01382.x
Schlagwörter	Siblings; Smoking; Academic Achievement; Pregnancy; Genetics; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Mathematics Skills; Grades (Scholastic); Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sibling; Geschwister; Rauchen; Schulleistung; Schwangerschaft; Humangenetik; Ausland; Korrelation; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Notenspiegel; Schweden
Abstract	The current study, based on all births in Sweden from 1983 to 1991 (N = 654,707), explored the processes underlying the association between smoking during pregnancy (SDP) and offspring school grades and mathematic proficiency at age 15. The analyses compared relatives who varied in their exposure to SDP and who varied in their genetic relatedness. Although SDP was statistically associated with academic achievement (AA) when comparing unrelated individuals, the results suggest that SDP does not cause poorer academic performance, as full siblings differentially exposed to SDP did not differ in their academic scores. The pattern of results suggests that genetic factors shared by parents and their offspring help explain why offspring exposed to SDP have lower levels of AA. (Contains 8 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10