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evidence about the role of genetics in this transmission process. In our paper, we use data on roughly 3,000 twins from the …
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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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This paper investigates risk-taking in the liquid portfolios held by a large panel of Swedish twins. We document that the portfolio share invested in risky assets is an increasing and concave function of financial wealth, leading to different risk sensitivities across investors. Human capital,...
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Recent biomedical research shows that roughly three-quarters of cognitive abilities are attributable to genetics and …
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This paper builds an age-structural model of human population genetics in which agents are endowed with a high …
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evidence about the role of genetics in this transmission process. In our paper, we use data on roughly 3,000 twins from the …
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