K. Paige Harden

Jan 14, 2024 | nature.com | Ted Schwaba |K. Paige Harden |Michel G. Nivard

AbstractLatent factors, such as general intelligence, depression and risk tolerance, are invoked in nearly all social science research where a construct is measured via aggregation of symptoms, question responses or other measurements. Because latent factors cannot be directly observed, they are inferred by fitting a specific model to empirical patterns of correlations among measured variables.

Jan 14, 2024 | nature.com | Michel G. Nivard |K. Paige Harden |Ole A. Andreassen |Eivind Ystrøm |Elsje van Bergen

AbstractFamilies transmit genes and environments across generations. When parents’ genetics affect their children’s environments, these two modes of inheritance can produce an ‘indirect genetic effect’. Such indirect genetic effects may account for up to half of the estimated genetic variance in educational attainment.