Search Results - subject:"Behavioral genetics"

How Can Genetically Informative Research Contribute to Life Course Research?

Diewald, Martin - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 76 (2024) 3, pp. 491-524

Genetically informative studies have established a new research field that crosscuts disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences, as well as between social science and biology, with proprietary aims and research questions. This happens, however, at the cost of appropriate integration into...

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Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023

Are genetic differences between people associated with their career choices? We link data from a large sample of genotyped individuals to Swedish government register data on study major and occupation. Our data contains polygenic indices that summarize genetic variants linked to several...

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Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2022

We use a novel approach to explore how people sort into different careers based on their personality skills. We link genetic data from individuals in the Swedish Twin Registry to government register data, making use of new polygenic indices that capture the genetic predispositions of individuals...

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Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016

Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...

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Biology and gender in the labor market

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016

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Individual Differences in Learning Capabilities: Opportunities and Prospects of Behavioral Genetic Research

Tikhomirova, Tatyana; Malykh, Sergey; Kovas, Yuliya - In: Educational Studies (2012) 4, pp. 186-199

researcher at the Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioral Genetics, National Research Tomsk State University …, senior researcher at the Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioral Genetics, National Research Tomsk State … Laboratory for Cognitive Investigations and Behavioral Genetics, National Research Tomsk State University, Head of the …

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Biologische Variablen in sozialwissenschaftlichen Surveys

Schnell, Rainer - 2009

Social scientists have ignored biological constraints of human behavior for a long time almost completely. If prediction of behavior is considered as essential for a social science. The neglect of any variable, which might influence human behavior, is hardly justified. Therefore, this paper...

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Biologische Variablen in sozialwissenschaftlichen Surveys

Schnell, Rainer - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2009

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