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T1  - Early Puberty Is Associated With Higher Academic Achievement in Boys and Girls and Partially Explains Academic Sex Differences 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334885 
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A1  - Torvik, Fartein Ask; Flato, Martin; McAdams, Tom A.; Colman, Ian; Silventoinen, Karri; Stoltenberg, Camilla 
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Y1  - 2021 
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AB  - Purpose: On average, boys have lower academic achievement than girls. We investigated whether the timing of puberty is associated with academic achievement, and whether later puberty among boys contributes to the sex difference in academic achievement. Method: Examination scores at age 16 were studied among 13,477 British twins participating in the population-based Twins Early Development Study. A pubertal development scale, a height based proxy of growth spurt, and age at menarche were used as ... 
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KW  - Academic achievement; Puberty; Menarche; Sex differences; Twins; MENARCHE; CHILDHOOD; AGE; ADOLESCENCE; MATURATION; IMPUTATION; EDUCATION; VALIDITY; GENDER; 5141 Sociology; 516 Educational sciences; 5144 Social psychology 
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