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Disparities in socio-economic status and BMI in the UK are partly due to genetic and environmental luck

Burik, Casper A. P.; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Koellinger, Philipp - 2021

Two family-specific lotteries take place during conception- a social lottery that determines who our parents are and which environment we grow up in, and a genetic lottery that determines which part of their genomes our parents pass on to us. The outcomes of these lotteries create inequalities...

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Genetic fortune : winning or losing education, income, and health

Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020 - Revision: November 2020

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of individual income, using data from individuals of European ancestries. We find that ≈10% of the variance in occupational wages...

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Born that way : beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences

Pogliano, Andrea - 2024

's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … importance of genetics in performing in the task by means of an information provision treatment. I find that spectators for whom … genetics is framed to play a larger role compensate the worse performer more, compared to those for whom genetics is framed to …

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