Why are children of poor parents more likely to be poor as adults than other children? Early-
childhood adversities resulting from social structures and relationships impact children's …

Human, financial, and social capital from several contexts affects child and adolescent well‐
being. Families and schools are among the most important, and research is increasingly …

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) was developed in the
1990s in response to a mandate from the United States Congress to fund a study of …

This book brings together prominent investigators to provide a comprehensive guide to
doing life course research, including an “inside view” of how they designed and carried out …

This comprehensive handbook provides an overview of key theoretical perspectives,
concepts, and methodological approaches that, while applied to diverse phenomena, are …

This work investigates whether genetic makeup moderates the effects of education on
health. Low statistical power and endogenous measures of environment have been …

Political scientists are making increasing use of the methodologies of behavior genetics in
an attempt to uncover whether or not political behavior is heritable, as well as the specific …

Although gene by environment studies are typically based on the assumption that some
individuals possess genetic variants that enhance their vulnerability to environmental …

The search for genetic risk factors underlying the presumed heritability of all human
behavior has unfolded in two phases. The first phase, characterized by candidate-gene …

Este Cuaderno Metodológico busca introducir a los lectores en uno de los conjuntos de
técnicas de mayor desarrollo en las últimas décadas en ciencias sociales: el análisis …