More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes

MG Nivard, DW Belsky, KP Harden, T Baier… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Families transmit genes and environments across generations. When parents'
genetics affect their children's environments, these two modes of inheritance can produce an …

The nurture of nature and the nature of nurture: How genes and investments interact in the formation of skills

MA Houmark, V Ronda, M Rosholm - American Economic Review, 2024 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies the interplay between genetics and family investments in the process of
skill formation. We model and estimate the joint evolution of skills and parental investments …

Genes and sales

S Gong, Q Li, S Su, J Zhang - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper presents one of the first marketing applications of molecular genetics. We report
evidence that salespeople's genetic variants linked to educational attainment predict sales …

[HTML][HTML] Early life stress modulates the genetic influence on brain structure and cognitive function in children

HH Wang, SY Moon, H Kim, G Kim, WY Ahn, YY Joo… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The enduring influence of early life stress (ELS) on brain and cognitive development has
been widely acknowledged, yet the precise mechanisms underlying this association remain …

[HTML][HTML] Infrastructuring Educational Genomics: Associations, Architectures, and Apparatuses

B Williamson, D Kotouza, M Pickersgill… - Postdigital Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Technoscientific transformations in molecular genomics have begun to influence knowledge
production in education. Interdisciplinary scientific consortia are seeking to identify 'genetic …

Educational influences on late-life health: Genetic propensity and attained education

M Ericsson, B Finch, IK Karlsson, M Gatz… - The Journals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The educational gradient in late-life health is well established. Despite this, there
are still ambiguities concerning the role of underlying confounding by genetic influences and …

Social-Science Genomics: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

Rapid progress has been made in identifying links between human genetic variation and
social and behavioral phenotypes. Applications in mainstream economics are beginning to …

Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on early language development: The interplay of genetic propensity for negative emotionality and surgency, and …

RW Cheung, C Austerberry, P Fearon… - Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development.
However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes …

Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy

TT Morris, S von Hinke, L Pike… - British Educational …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research at the intersection of social science and genomics,'sociogenomics', is transforming
our understanding of the interplay between genomics, individual outcomes and society. It …

Genetic endowments for social capital: An investigation accounting for genetic nurturing effects

M Lebenbaum, F Gagnon, C de Oliveira… - Economics & Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite social capital having been shown to be important for health and well-being,
relatively little research has examined genetic determinants. Genetic endowments for …