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Socioeconomic status, genes and the differential effects of parental separation on attainment
27 November 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this event to hear Gaia Ghirardi present a study leveraging molecular data to investigate how the parental separation penalty on educational attainment varies by SES and children’s genetic propensity for education.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Tobias Ruttenauer
Location
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Room G0355-59 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0NU
Prior research has consistently documented a more pronounced negative impact of parental separation on educational attainment among children from high socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds.
The analysis uses two distinct datasets, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).
Gaia will suggest that when high-SES parents separate, they experience a reduced capacity to compensate for their children's low genetic propensity for education on college attainment and years of education.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
Related links
- QSS and CLS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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About the Speaker
Gaia Ghirardi
Sociology PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Science at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence
She is also a researcher at the University of Bologna, working on the GENPOP project led by Nicola Barban.
Gaia is a sociologist with research interests in educational inequalities, social stratification, sociogenomics, and early childhood.
More about Gaia Ghirardi