Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes

Theresa Rohm; Anastasia Andreas; Marco Deppe; Harald Eichhorn; Jana Instinske; Christoph H. Klatzka; Anita Kottwitz; Kristina Krell; Bastian Mönkediek; Lena Paulus; Sophia Piesch; Mirko Ruks; Alexandra Starr; Lena Weigel; Martin Diewald; Christian Kandler; Rainer Riemann; Frank M. Spinath

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Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes

Theresa Rohm, Anastasia Andreas, Marco Deppe, Harald Eichhorn, Jana Instinske, Christoph H. Klatzka, Anita Kottwitz, Kristina Krell, Bastian Mönkediek, Lena Paulus, Sophia Piesch, Mirko Ruks, Alexandra Starr, Lena Weigel, Martin Diewald, Christian Kandler, Rainer Riemann, Frank M. Spinath

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Abstract

The major aim of the German TwinLife study is the investigation of gene-environment interplay driving educational and other inequalities across developmental trajectories from childhood to early adulthood. TwinLife encompasses an 8-year longitudinal, cross-sequential extended twin family design with data from same-sex twins of four age cohorts (5, 11, 17, and 23 years) and their parents, as well as their non-twin siblings, partners, and children, if available, altogether containing N = 4,096 families. As such, TwinLife includes unique and openly accessible data that allows, but is not limited to, genetically informative and environmentally sensitive research on sources of inequalities regarding educational attainment, school achievement, and skill development.

Original language	English
Article number	14
Journal	Journal of Open Psychology Data
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.78
Publication status	Published - 2023

Funding

The TwinLife study is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Grant Number 220286500). The grant was awarded to Martin Diewald (DI 759/11-4), Christian Kandler (KA 4088/6-4) Rainer Riemann (RI 595/8–3), and Frank M. Spinath (SP 610/6-4).

Funders	Funder number
Christian Kandler	SP 610/6-4, KA 4088/6-4, RI 595/8–3
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	220286500
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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cross-sequential design
educational differences
extended twin family study
genetic and environmental factors
social inequality

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Rohm, T., Andreas, A., Deppe, M., Eichhorn, H., Instinske, J., Klatzka, C. H., Kottwitz, A., Krell, K., Mönkediek, B., Paulus, L., Piesch, S., Ruks, M., Starr, A., Weigel, L., Diewald, M., Kandler, C., Riemann, R., & Spinath, F. M. (2023). Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.78

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