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Nature or Nurture? A Note on the Misinterpreted Twin Decomposition [PDF]
The classical twin model has often been used to determine whether variation in outcomes such IQ, schooling and other behavioral traits, originate from genetic endowments or environmental factors.
Stenberg, Anders
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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2016 Sakari Jukarainen +13 more
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Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs [PDF]
Understanding the sources of individual differences beyond social and economic effects has become a research area of growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics.
Frank M. Spinath
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Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics? [PDF]
This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment
Lundborg, Petter, Stenberg, Anders
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The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal [PDF]
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of administrative data on absenteeism; the amount of hours
Simonsen, Marianne, Skipper, Lars
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Genetics & Applications, 2018 Despite the high power of discrimination that characterizes the well identified 16 to 24 autosomal short tandem repeat markers, monozygotic twins differentiation is generally limited.
Paula Romanos, Jamilah Borjac
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Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data [PDF]
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S.
Amin, Vikesh +2 more
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Characterising metabolically healthy obesity in weight-discordant monozygotic twins
Diabetologia, 2014 Jussi Naukkarinen +19 more
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Case Series on Obsessive-compulsive Disorder in Twins: Phenotypic Divergence and Shared Therapeutic Challenges. [PDF]
Indian J Psychol MedChouhan A, Rawat M, Sandhu S.
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