T Baier
Biographic Data
| ID | 42508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Baier |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Baier |
| SIGNATURE | BAIER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8137-7800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions – A twin study across four European countries
Studies of gene-by-family socioeconomic status (GxSES) interactions in educational outcomes have yielded mixed findings. Building on a socio-contextual perspective, this study emphasizes that genetic influences are shaped not only by family environments but also by broader social forces, including gender and institutional context. Prior sociogenetic research, for example, suggests that early school tracking may suppress genetic influences. Using …
Genetic risks for depression and educational achievement in adolescence
Mental health problems, including depressive disorders, show strong and robust associations with labour market attainment and other stratification outcomes, but underlying processes remain unclear. We use a genetically informed design to examine associations between genetic liability to major depressive disorder and ninth-grade educational achievement. Using nearly 38,000 parent-child trios from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study linked …
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education
ObjectiveThis study focuses on the extent to which parental divorce and separation during childhood affect children's chances to realize genetic influences on educational attainment.BackgroundWhether the family context matters for genetic influences on children's educational attainment remains an open question. Previous research mainly considers parents' socio-economic standing and overlooks a key dimension of social stratification: childhood fam…
Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes—New Insights from Modern Genetic Science
Sociological theory and empirical research have found that parents’ socioeconomic status and related resources affect their children’s educational outcomes. Findings from behavior genetics reveal genetic underpinnings of the intergenerational transmission of education, thus altering previous conclusions about purely environmental transmission mechanisms. In recent years, studies in molecular genetics have led to new insights. Genomic data, polyge…
More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes
Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children's cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany
This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early social inequality in children's cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by drawing on the new-born sample of the National Educational Panel Study. To this end, we study first whether the access to formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) differs by parents' socio-economic status (SES), by means of logistic regressions. Second, we a…
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children
Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored genetic inheritance. We address this shortcoming by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms. This decomposition reveals to what extent the impa…
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective
There is a growing interest in how social conditions moderate genetic influences on education [gene-environment interactions (GxE)]. Previous research has focused on the family, specifically parents' social background, and has neglected the institutional environment. To assess the impact of macro-level influences, we compare genetic influences on educational achievement and their social stratification across Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the Unite…
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course
To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents' socioeconomic standing? When in a children's life course does parents' socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most? We studied these research questions using Finnish register-based data…
Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance
Objective A behavioral genetics approach is used to test whether parental separation lowers the importance of genes for children's school performance. Background The Scarr–Rowe hypothesis, which states that the relative importance of genes on cognitive ability is higher for advantaged compared to disadvantaged children, has been expanded to educational outcomes. However, advantage/disadvantage is predominantly conceptualized as parental socioecon…
The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education
The relative importance of genes and shared environmental influences on stratification outcomes has recently received much attention in the literature. We focus on education and the gene-environmental interplay. Specifically, we investigate whether—as proposed by the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis—genetic influences are more important in advantaged families. We argue that the social stratification of family environments affects children's chances to actua…
Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Intergenerational Downward Mobility in Educational Attainment and Occupational Careers in West Germany in the Twentieth Century
What happens in the occupational careers of men if the intergenerational continuity in status reproduction is disrupted by the failure to reproduce the parental level of educational attainment? We frame this failure as a risk for intergenerational status maintenance and ask whether such a risk induces extra effort by way of compensation. By studying eight birth cohorts born between 1919 and 1971 characterized by largely differing conditions with …
Die Auswirkung von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung in Deutschland. Evidenz aus einem natürlichen Experiment auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragung / The Effect of Tuition Fees on Enroll…
In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, ob Studiengebühren Studienberechtigte in Deutschland von einem Studium abhalten. Auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragungen 2002 bis 2008 wird quasi-experimentell der Effekt von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung untersucht. Die Analysen machen sich die zwischen den Bundesländern variierende Einführung von Studiengebühren zunutze und wenden ein Difference-in-Differences- Schätzverfah…
The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education
The relative importance of genes and shared environmental influences on stratification outcomes has recently received much attention in the literature. We focus on education and the gene-environmental interplay. Specifically, we investigate whether—as proposed by the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis—genetic influences are more important in advantaged families. We argue that the social stratification of family environments affects children's chances to actua…
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course
To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents' socioeconomic standing? When in a children's life course does parents' socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most? We studied these research questions using Finnish register-based data…
Status Attainment and Social Mobility
More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children
Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored genetic inheritance. We address this shortcoming by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms. This decomposition reveals to what extent the impa…
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective
There is a growing interest in how social conditions moderate genetic influences on education [gene-environment interactions (GxE)]. Previous research has focused on the family, specifically parents' social background, and has neglected the institutional environment. To assess the impact of macro-level influences, we compare genetic influences on educational achievement and their social stratification across Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the Unite…
Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children's cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany
This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early social inequality in children's cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by drawing on the new-born sample of the National Educational Panel Study. To this end, we study first whether the access to formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) differs by parents' socio-economic status (SES), by means of logistic regressions. Second, we a…
Die Auswirkung von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung in Deutschland. Evidenz aus einem natürlichen Experiment auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragung / The Effect of Tuition Fees on Enroll…
In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, ob Studiengebühren Studienberechtigte in Deutschland von einem Studium abhalten. Auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragungen 2002 bis 2008 wird quasi-experimentell der Effekt von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung untersucht. Die Analysen machen sich die zwischen den Bundesländern variierende Einführung von Studiengebühren zunutze und wenden ein Difference-in-Differences- Schätzverfah…
Intergenerational Downward Mobility in Educational Attainment and Occupational Careers in West Germany in the Twentieth Century
What happens in the occupational careers of men if the intergenerational continuity in status reproduction is disrupted by the failure to reproduce the parental level of educational attainment? We frame this failure as a risk for intergenerational status maintenance and ask whether such a risk induces extra effort by way of compensation. By studying eight birth cohorts born between 1919 and 1971 characterized by largely differing conditions with …
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education
ObjectiveThis study focuses on the extent to which parental divorce and separation during childhood affect children's chances to realize genetic influences on educational attainment.BackgroundWhether the family context matters for genetic influences on children's educational attainment remains an open question. Previous research mainly considers parents' socio-economic standing and overlooks a key dimension of social stratification: childhood fam…
Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes—New Insights from Modern Genetic Science
Sociological theory and empirical research have found that parents’ socioeconomic status and related resources affect their children’s educational outcomes. Findings from behavior genetics reveal genetic underpinnings of the intergenerational transmission of education, thus altering previous conclusions about purely environmental transmission mechanisms. In recent years, studies in molecular genetics have led to new insights. Genomic data, polyge…
Die Auswirkung von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung in Deutschland. Evidenz aus einem natürlichen Experiment auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragung / The Effect of Tuition Fees on Enroll…
In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage, ob Studiengebühren Studienberechtigte in Deutschland von einem Studium abhalten. Auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragungen 2002 bis 2008 wird quasi-experimentell der Effekt von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung untersucht. Die Analysen machen sich die zwischen den Bundesländern variierende Einführung von Studiengebühren zunutze und wenden ein Difference-in-Differences- Schätzverfah…
Status Attainment and Social Mobility
Intergenerational Downward Mobility in Educational Attainment and Occupational Careers in West Germany in the Twentieth Century
What happens in the occupational careers of men if the intergenerational continuity in status reproduction is disrupted by the failure to reproduce the parental level of educational attainment? We frame this failure as a risk for intergenerational status maintenance and ask whether such a risk induces extra effort by way of compensation. By studying eight birth cohorts born between 1919 and 1971 characterized by largely differing conditions with …
The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Education
The relative importance of genes and shared environmental influences on stratification outcomes has recently received much attention in the literature. We focus on education and the gene-environmental interplay. Specifically, we investigate whether—as proposed by the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis—genetic influences are more important in advantaged families. We argue that the social stratification of family environments affects children's chances to actua…
Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance
Objective A behavioral genetics approach is used to test whether parental separation lowers the importance of genes for children's school performance. Background The Scarr–Rowe hypothesis, which states that the relative importance of genes on cognitive ability is higher for advantaged compared to disadvantaged children, has been expanded to educational outcomes. However, advantage/disadvantage is predominantly conceptualized as parental socioecon…
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children
Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored genetic inheritance. We address this shortcoming by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms. This decomposition reveals to what extent the impa…
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective
There is a growing interest in how social conditions moderate genetic influences on education [gene-environment interactions (GxE)]. Previous research has focused on the family, specifically parents' social background, and has neglected the institutional environment. To assess the impact of macro-level influences, we compare genetic influences on educational achievement and their social stratification across Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the Unite…
Socioeconomic Background and Gene-Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course
To what extent are differences in education, occupational standing, and income attributable to genes, and do genetic influences differ by parents' socioeconomic standing? When in a children's life course does parents' socioeconomic standing matter for genetic influences, and for which of the outcomes, fixed at the different stages of the attainment process, do they matter most? We studied these research questions using Finnish register-based data…
Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children's cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany
This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early social inequality in children's cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by drawing on the new-born sample of the National Educational Panel Study. To this end, we study first whether the access to formal early childhood education and care (ECEC) differs by parents' socio-economic status (SES), by means of logistic regressions. Second, we a…
Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes—New Insights from Modern Genetic Science
Sociological theory and empirical research have found that parents’ socioeconomic status and related resources affect their children’s educational outcomes. Findings from behavior genetics reveal genetic underpinnings of the intergenerational transmission of education, thus altering previous conclusions about purely environmental transmission mechanisms. In recent years, studies in molecular genetics have led to new insights. Genomic data, polyge…
More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education
ObjectiveThis study focuses on the extent to which parental divorce and separation during childhood affect children's chances to realize genetic influences on educational attainment.BackgroundWhether the family context matters for genetic influences on children's educational attainment remains an open question. Previous research mainly considers parents' socio-economic standing and overlooks a key dimension of social stratification: childhood fam…
The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions – A twin study across four European countries
Studies of gene-by-family socioeconomic status (GxSES) interactions in educational outcomes have yielded mixed findings. Building on a socio-contextual perspective, this study emphasizes that genetic influences are shaped not only by family environments but also by broader social forces, including gender and institutional context. Prior sociogenetic research, for example, suggests that early school tracking may suppress genetic influences. Using …
Genetic risks for depression and educational achievement in adolescence
Mental health problems, including depressive disorders, show strong and robust associations with labour market attainment and other stratification outcomes, but underlying processes remain unclear. We use a genetically informed design to examine associations between genetic liability to major depressive disorder and ninth-grade educational achievement. Using nearly 38,000 parent-child trios from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study linked …
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (9 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Educational attainment (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works)