Nettsider med emneord «genetics»

In this article, Martin Isungset, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors investigate if birth order differences in education are caused by genetic differences. Their findings show that birth order differences are not biological in origin, but pinning down their specific causes remains elusive.

In this article, Tina Baier, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors address a shortcoming in previous research on intergenerational correlation of educational attainment, by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms.

In this working paper, Tina Baier focus on the extent to which parental separation affects genetic influences on educational attainment across 20th Century birth cohorts.

In this article published in European Sociological Review, Tina Baier and co-authors ask to what extent  differences in education, occupational standing, and income are attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents’ socioeconomic standing? When in a children’s life course does parents’ socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most?

In this working paper Martin Isungset, Tina Baier and Torkild Lyngstad study whether the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences for lifetime income changed as gender equalization took place.