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Understanding sibling correlations in education : molecular genetics and family background

Fletcher, Jason; Lu, Qiongshi; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Song, Jie - 2023

combined effects of shared sibling background and experiences, including genetics and family environments. The UK Biobank … allows us to specifically control for sibling and parental genetics (polygenic scores, PGS) in order to gauge their relative …%) contributions of molecular genetics to the similarity of sibling outcomes, suggesting a large amount of the observed similarity in …

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Poor little rich kids? : the determinants of the intergenerational transmission of wealth

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

inheritance, there is a substantial role for environment and a much smaller role for genetics. We also examine the role played by …

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Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity

Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - 2012

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...

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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the health and retirement study

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2016

Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We...

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The effect of weight on labor market outcomes : an application of genetic instrumental variables

Böckerman, Petri; Cawley, John H.; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2016

indicate that genetic risk score is a powerful instrument, and the available evidence from the genetics literature is …

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On the origins of risk-taking

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015

Risk-taking behavior is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use data on stock market participation of Swedish adoptees and relate this to the investment...

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The heritability of trust and trustworthiness depends on the measure of trust

Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2021

Using a large sample of 1,120 twins, we estimated the heritability of trust using four distinct measures of trust - domain-specific political trust, general self-reported trust, and incentivized behavioral trust and trustworthiness. Our results highlight the importance of measuring trust in a...

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Genetic and socioeconomic achievement gaps in elementary school

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Gene-environment effects on female fertility

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...

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