It is unclear whether poverty and mental illness are causally related. Using UK Biobank and
Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, we examined evidence of causal links between …

The sociogenomics revolution is upon us, we are told. Whether revolutionary or not,
sociogenomics is poised to flourish given the ease of incorporating polygenic scores (or …

In this response, I focus on clarifying my arguments, highlighting consensus, and addressing
competing views about the utility of PGSs for social science. I also discuss an assortment of …

Saving disposition, the tendency to save rather than consume, has been found to be
associated with economic outcomes. People lacking the disposition to save are more likely …

Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's
genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now …

Objectives The educational gradient in late-life health is well established. Despite this, there
are still ambiguities concerning the role of underlying confounding by genetic influences and …

Nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) jointly contribute to the formation and
evolution of health and human capital over the life cycle. This complex interplay between …

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated
with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of …

We contend that social science variables are the product of multiple partly heritable traits.
Genetic associations with socio-economic status (SES) may differ across populations, but …

This commentary is a call to action for researchers to create and use genome-wide
association studies (GWASs) with previously missed age groups (eg, infancy, elderly), which …