Objectives
- The project's objectives are to study change in genetic and environmental influences on socioeconomic and demographic outcomes.
- We will study change across three dimensions: birth cohorts, life course stages, and generations.
- Outcomes of interest includes, but are not limited to, socioeconomic outcomes such as educational attainment, test scores, school grades, occupational status, income and wealth. Demographic outcomes include choice of union type, divorce, timing of fertility and marriage, number of children born and others.
- To these ends, we will use register data combined with both twin/family data and molecular genetic data sources. The twin/family data is already in house and ready for analysis. We are in the process of obtaining the molecular genetic data combined with register information.
Advisory Board Members
The project also has appointed an advisory board.
- Prof. Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm University
- Prof. Wendy Johnson, University of Edinburgh
- Prof. Eric Turkheimer, University of Virginia
- Prof. Kathryn Paige Harden, University of Texas-Austin
Funding
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 818420).
Project Period
1 July 2019 - 31 December 2025
