ArticleThe journal of political economy2020
Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality.
Article in The journal of political economy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Overcoming attenuation bias in regressions using polygenic indices.Nature communications · 2023Pooled it
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- Intergenerational transmission of genetic risk for hyperactivity and inattention. Direct genetic transmission or genetic nurture?JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Potential corporate uses of polygenic indexes: Starting a conversation about the associated ethics and policy issues.American journal of human genetics · 2024Article
- Gene-environment pathways to cognitive intelligence and psychotic-like experiences in children.eLife · 2024Article
- Estimating trans-ancestry genetic correlation with unbalanced data resources.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2024Article
- The association between saving disposition and financial distress: A genetically informed approach.Journal Of Economic Psychology · 2023Article
- Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility.The Hastings Center report · 2023Article
- Cohort profile: Genetic data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-G).PloS one · 2023Article
- Does educational attainment and gender inequalities affect wealth accumulation? Evidence from Vietnam.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Can genomic research make a useful contribution to social policy?Royal Society open science · 2022Review
- Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2022Article
- Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals.Nature genetics · 2022Article
- A polygenic score for educational attainment partially predicts voter turnout.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Genetic predictors of educational attainment and intelligence test performance predict voter turnout.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
- Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic.Journal of population economics · 2021Article
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Abstract
We show that genetic endowments linked to educational attainment strongly and robustly predict wealth at retirement. The estimated relationship is not fully explained by flexibly controlling for education and labor income. We therefore investigate a host of additional mechanisms that could account for the gene-wealth gradient, including inheritances, mortality, risk preferences, portfolio decisions, beliefs about the probabilities of macroeconomic events, and planning horizons. We provide evidence that genetic endowments related to human capital accumulation are associated with wealth not only through educational attainment and labor income, but also through a facility with complex financial decision-making.
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