Reply to Morris: Heritability of education remains associated with social mobility.

Damien Morris has read our paper (1) and concluded that it suggests a “general law” such that “heritability rises whenever social mobility increases and falls whenever it decreases” (2). Although we are flattered, our own ambition was more modest: to assess the available evidence (3)—mostly from rich, Western democracies—for a theoretically expected but hitherto relatively undocumented empirical pattern.\n\nLet us first emphasize that we share the author’s zeal for transparency. So much so, in fact, that in our original analysis we supplied more than 400 alternative specifications using different codings and inclusion criteria (https://osf.io/r9kp2/). These supplementary analyses bolster our conclusions, but there are nuances: For example, the association … \n\n[↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: per.engzell{at}nuffield.ox.ac.uk.\n\n [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1