Niels Rietveld will be presenting “Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again.”
About the speaker
Rietveld offers a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control, changes in the genetic and the common environment (family) variance components underlying inter-individual differences can be ex-post informative regarding the evolvement of sources of inequalities in a population. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, Rietveld empirically illustrates this reappraisal of heritability studies by estimating two different gene-environment interactions in test scores from a high[1]stakes national educational achievement test.
Read the working paper, “Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again.”
Contact
Mindy Walker, mindy.walker@wisc.edu