Plastic and immobile: Unequal intergenerational mobility by genetic sensitivity score within sibling pairs.
Contrary to traditional biological arguments, the differential susceptibility model suggests genotype may moderate rather than mediate parent-child economic similarity. Using family fixed effects models of Add Health sibling data, I investigate the relationship between an index of sensitive genotype...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Research Vol. 65; pp. 112 - 130 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Jul2017
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