We conclude that married women with educational attainment of primary education and above are less likely get married at an early age than those who are uneducated.
However, despite the association of the genetic variant with educational attainment and a strong association of education with cognition in our data, the genetic variant did not associate with cognition in our analyses.
The strong effects indicate that the realistic educational aspirations are highly correlated with educational attainment during the transition to upper secondary education.
To date, the best example of research in this strand of literature appears in Okbay et al. (2016 .24 The authors conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of about 300,000 people (this is called the discovery sample)25 and find 74 SNPs associated with educational attainment, where educational attainment is the amount of formal education completed.
But with educational attainment going increasingly to the children of the affluent and educated, we appear to be developing a self-perpetuating elite that reaps a greater and greater share of financial rewards.
Firstly, the distribution by education shows that formality increases and informality and unemployment decrease with educational attainment, as shown in Table 2.
The literature shows less consistency for associations with educational attainment (McKinlay et al 1992), although the SWAN found higher education to be related to better attitude after controlling on age, menopause status, and other variables.
(However, gun ownership rates are inversely correlated with educational attainment).
University of Bristol A study has found that small genetic differences are associated with educational attainment.
But we mustn't confuse hours spent in the classroom with educational attainment.
Some potential links with educational attainment were also visible in the literature.
