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An undertaking of this magnitude requires the assistance of many individuals. We are most indebted to the Secretary of Education of Bogota for cooperating with us in this novel experiment, putting up with the constraints created by the research effort, and, of course, financially supporting the entire project. Fedesarrollo, the think tank for which Barrera-Osorio and Perez were working at the execution of the project, provided financial support as well and helped the SED in the design and implementation of the program. While everyone at the SED has been extremely helpful we are particularly indebted to Abel Rodriguez, Catalina Velasco and Margarita Vega. We are indebted to Silvia Restrepo of Fedesarrollo for the logistical assistance and for the data collection. Camilo Dominguez has done an excellent job as a research assistant during the entire project, and we thank Carlos Ospino and Lucas Higuera for their help at key points in the effort. We thank Sendhil Mullainathan and Mario Sanchez for their comments and assistance, and thank the seminar participants at the World Bank's Human Development Network, Columbia University's Department of Economics, NBER Summer Education Meeting, Rutgers University's Department of Economics, New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, the LACEA Impact Evaluation Network and the CIPREE/BREAD Conference for their helpful question and comments. All errors are of course (and unfortunately) our responsibility. Please send correspondence to Leigh Linden at leigh.linden@columbia.edu. The opinions expressed in this document reflect only the views of the authors and in no way reflect the opinions of the World Bank, the Colombian Ministry of Education, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

How will they cope with their little dilemmas? What will they uncover about their siblings and themselves in this wild ride of upside down reality? Can they ever reverse the experiment and solve the mystery behind this life-changing experience (pun intended), and at what costs?

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From the outset, the experiment had problems. We reached out to Lawrence Perlman, one of the few researchers who has spoken about his brief involvement in the study when he was a postgraduate student. In his role, he would visit the twins, test them and film them. He remembers being surprised at just how similar the estranged twins were. "Not just the physical appearance, but their whole personalities. It was quite clear to me that the genetic influences were very strong," he says. One young twin pair, for instance, both loved ketchup, to the delight of one adoptive mother and the frustration of the other, notes Perlman.

The twins were placed with carefully selected families based on several key factors, such as their parents' ages, socioeconomic status, education, religion, and their other children. "They all had an older sibling who had been adopted from Louise Wise, and that was kind of the hook that they had in terms of getting parents to agree," says Perlman. And according to Segal, it was also a way to create constant conditions across families.

For the families, questions persist without answers, and the experiment has cast a long shadow. No living individual has ever been held accountable. One unintended legacy of the experiment is that it provides an example of how science should not be done, and how important ethics considerations are at every stage. (Learn about other research that has strayed from the ethical tightrope in this film and this article.)

Others have experienced anger, sadness and regret at their involvement in the experiment. For some, it affected their relationships with their adoptive parents. And most of all it affected their relationship with their twin.

This doesn't mean brothers don't matter. The study found that having a loving sibling of either gender promoted good deeds, such as helping a neighbor or watching out for other kids at school. In fact, loving siblings fostered charitable attitudes more than loving parents did. The relationship between sibling affection and good deeds was twice as strong as that between parenting and good deeds.

Many parents justifiably worry about the seemingly endless fighting between siblings. The study found hostility was indeed associated with greater risk of delinquency. Yet Padilla-Walker also sees a silver lining in the data: The fights give children a chance to learn how to make up and to regain control of their emotions, skills that come in handy down the road.

This article, recently published in Twin Research and Human Genetics, focuses on the unique design of Project Talent, which includes twins, siblings of twins, and siblings in other families all nested within schools. The strength of this design is that by comparing twins and non-twins attending the same schools it is possible to estimate the extra-familial environmental effects that contribute to the similarity of twins.

This is an important issue, as what is often referred to as "family environment" in a standard twin design actually reflects all environmental sources of resemblance between siblings, including schools, neighborhoods, shared peers, and between-family effects associated with social class, religion, ethnicity, and other macro-level influences. Comparing brothers and sisters from within the same families is a powerful test of gender effects, and girls from opposite sex pairs can be compared to those from same-sex pairs to address hypotheses about prenatal androgenization of behavior.

The large sibling sample in Project Talent is useful for evaluating many hypotheses concerning the impact of family factors, gender, and birth order on a wide range of variables, including cognition, personality, and interests.

Understanding why sibling sexual abuse occurs is complex. One of the main factors contributing to this phenomenon is the family environment. Maladaptive parental behavior and dysfunctional family structures have an impact on the sibling relationship. When the family structure supports power imbalances, rigid gender roles, differential treatment of siblings, and lack of parental supervision, the risk for sibling sexual abuse increases (Bank and Kahn 1982; Caspi 2011; Leder 1993; Morrill-Richards and Leierer 2010). Rowntree (2007) conducted a qualitative study of 19 adult female survivors of sibling sexual abuse in which it was found that the minimization of the abuse when disclosed had an impact on the severity and perception of the abuse. In a study conducted by Wiehe (1997), the normalization of abuse by parents was found to be a critical element in the severity and frequency of abuse among siblings. When parents either model inappropriate sexual interaction or are unable to acknowledge inappropriate sexual interactions in their children, it is likely that one child will begin or continue to inflict sexual abuse on a sibling because he or she is modeling the actions of his or her parents (Caspi 2011; Wiehe 1998; Glaser 1986).

In spite of lack of empirical research on the topic, it is likely that sexual abuse among siblings occurs more frequently than any other form of sexual abuse (Caffaro and Conn-Caffaro 1998; Caspi 2011; Kreinert and Walsh 2011; Wiehe 1998). Defining the specifics of sibling sexual abuse has lacked consistency and clarity in previous research, which has been a hindrance in terms of moving forward with needed empirical analysis (Kreinert and Walsh 2011). As such, this study offers a clear and detailed definition of sibling sexual abuse. Sibling sexual abuse is defined as sexual behavior between siblings that is not age appropriate, not transitory and not motivated by developmentally appropriate curiosity. Some examples of this behavior include inappropriate fondling, touching, sexual contact, groping indecent exposure, masturbation, exposure to pornography, oral sex, anal sex, digital penetration and intercourse (Caspi 2011; Phillips-Green 2002; Wiehe 1990).

While there has been debate as to whether or not non-physical aspects of sibling sexual abuse, such as forced exposure to pornography or sexual leering, are as harmful as physical sexual assault, this study supports the notion that all acts of sibling sexual abuse hold the potential to be equally harmful. Ybarra and Mitchell (2005) found that exposure to pornography as a child, which is not self-seeking or developmentally appropriate, results in a high correlation with substance abuse, depression, attachment issues, and delinquent behavior. Seto (2010) conducted a meta-analysis of 59 studies in which the results suggest forced exposure to pornography (particularly in which sexually violent acts occur) can lead to significantly higher rates of anxiety, low self-esteem, and social isolation. Additionally, it has been shown that unwanted sexual advances, sexual leers, and being forced to view pornographic material can have as much of a psychological impact as physical intercourse (Flood 2007; Leibowitz 2012; Whelan 2003).

Often reports of non-physical sibling sexual abuse are dismissed or minimized which intensifies the feelings of shame, guilt, and hopelessness related to the abuse (Walker-Descartes et al. 2011). It is crucial not to minimize this type of sexual abuse as this form tends to happen more frequently and occur over a longer period of time than physical types of sexual abuse. Further, there is a growing trend of using non-physical types of sexual abuse with increased access to computers and other technology (Flood 2009; Sears et al. 2006).

When compared with child sexual abuse in which an adult is the perpetrator, the impact and prevalence of sibling incest is often underestimated by society. This may be a result of the challenges related to establishing the victim and offender roles. Determining if coercion was a factor in the abuse may be another obstacle when dealing with siblings. Another difference between adult and sibling sexual abuse is that no generational boundary has been violated, which makes sexual abuse easier to hide. An exaggerated sexual climate in the family or a rigidly repressive sexual family environment increases the risk of sibling sexual abuse. These environments may also contain multiple offenders of sexual abuse within the family, thus increasing the challenge of detecting and dealing with sibling sexual abuse specifically (Caffaro and Conn-Caffaro 2005; Caspi 2011). Each offender may use denial as a means to protect himself or herself from experiencing shame and to maintain the abuse; therefore, the likelihood of any one member of the family reporting the incest is reduced. 2351a5e196