Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability

Project Information

OPENFLUX

Grant agreement ID: 818420

DOI

10.3030/818420

Project closed

EC signature date 27 February 2019

Start date 1 July 2019

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 987 231,00

EU contribution

€ 1 987 231,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
Norway

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

Can Policies Stall the Fertility Fall? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi-) Experimental Literature

Author(s): Janna Bergsvik, Agnes Fauske, and Rannveig Kaldager Hart
Published in: Population and Development Review, Issue 47 (4), 2021, Page(s) 913-964, ISSN 0098-7921
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/padr.12431

Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective

Author(s): Tina Baier, Volker Lang, Michael Grätz, Kieron J Barclay, Dalton C Conley, Christopher T Dawes, Thomas Laidley, Torkild H Lyngstad
Published in: European Sociological Review, 2022, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcac014

Socioeconomic Background and Gene–Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course

Author(s): Jani Erola, Hannu Lehti, Tina Baier, Aleksi Karhula
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue Volume 38, Issue 1, February 2022, 2022, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcab026

Correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment weakens over birth cohorts

Author(s): Arno Van Hootegem; Ole Røgeberg; Bernt Bratsberg; Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 17747(13), 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44605-6

Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies

Author(s): Michael Grätz; Kieron J. Barclay; Øyvind N. Wiborg; Torkild H. Lyngstad; Aleksi Karhula; Jani Erola; Patrick Präg; Thomas Laidley; Dalton Conley
Published in: Demography, Issue 58 (3), 2021, Page(s) 1011-1037, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
DOI: 10.1215/00703370-9164021

The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution

Author(s): Ruth Jørgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole Andreassen, Torkild Lyngstad
Published in: Sociological Science, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 76-96, ISSN 2330-6696
Publisher: Society for Sociological Science
DOI: 10.15195/v12.a4

Is single parenthood increasingly an experience of less-educated mothers? A European comparison over five decades

Author(s): Caroline Berghammer, Anna Matysiak, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Francesca Rinesi
Published in: Demographic Research, Issue 51, 2024, Page(s) 1059-1094, ISSN 1435-9871
Publisher: Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2024.51.34

Educational Expansions and Fertility: Evidence from Norwegian College Reforms

Author(s): Adrian Farner Rogne, Agnes Fauske, Rannveig Kaldager Hart
Published in: European Journal of Population, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 0168-6577
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10680-025-09737-7

A population-wide gene-environment interaction study on how genes, schools, and residential areas shape achievement

Author(s): Rosa Cheesman; Nicolai T. Borgen; Torkild H. Lyngstad; Espen M. Eilertsen; Ziada Ayorech; Fartein A. Torvik; Ole A. Andreassen; Henrik D. Zachrisson; Eivind Ystrom
Published in: npj Science of Learning, Issue 7(29), 2023, ISSN 2056-7936
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41539-022-00145-8

Genetic associations with educational fields

Author(s): Rosa Cheesman, Ville Anapaz, Sjoerd van Alten, Abdel Abdellaoui, Ralph Porneso, Joakim C. Ebeltoft, Ziada Ayorech, Perline A. Demange, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Agnes Fauske, Alexandra Havdahl, Hannu Lahtinen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Qi Qin, null null, Andrea Ganna, Eivind Ystrom
Published in: Nature Genetics, Issue 57, 2025, Page(s) 2997-3006, ISSN 1061-4036
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02391-z

Heritability of class and status: Implications for sociological theory and research

Author(s): Arno Van Hootegem, Adrian Farner Rogne, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Issue 92, 2025, Page(s) 100940, ISSN 0276-5624
Publisher: JAI Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100940

Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany

Author(s): Gaia Ghirardi, Tina Baier,Corinna Kleinert,Moris Triventi
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue 39(5), 2023, ISSN 1468-2672
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcac048

More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children’s academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes

Author(s): Michel G. Nivard, Dan Belsky, Kathryn P. Harden,Tina Baier, Ole Andreassen, Eivind Ystrøm, Elsje van Bergen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2024, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01796-2

Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Achievement in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Author(s): Martin Arstad Isungset, Dalton C. Conley, Henrik D. Zachrisson, Eivind Ystrøm, Alexandra Havdahl, Pål Njølstad, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Issue 119(25), 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201869119

Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene–environment interaction in the presence of gene–environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Birth Cohort Study

Author(s): Isabella Badini, Yasmin Ahmadzadeh, Daniel L. Wechsler, Torkild H. Lyngstad, Christopher Rayner, Espen M. Eilertsen, Helena M.S. Zavos, Eivind Ystrom, Tom A. McAdams
Published in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Issue 65, 2025, Page(s) 176-187, ISSN 0021-9630
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13872

No evidence of positive causal effects of maternal and paternal age at first birth on children’s test scores at age 10 years

Author(s): Michael Grätz, Felix C. Tropf, Fartein Ask Torvik, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild H. Lyngstad
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 731-736, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02108-6

Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: a combined twin and adoption study

Author(s): Arno Van Hootegem, Adrian Farner Rogne, Caroline Tveter Cros, Ole Røgeberg, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue 41, 2025, Page(s) 793-807, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaf029

Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries

Author(s): Anders M. Fjell, Ole Rogeberg, Øystein Sørensen, Inge K. Amlien, David Bartrés-Faz, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Gabriele Cattaneo, Sandra Düzel, Håkon Grydeland, Richard N. Henson, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Lars Nyberg, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Cristina Solé-Padullés, Markus H. Sneve, Javier Solana, Marie Strømstad, Leiv Otto Watne, Kristine
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 31, 2025, Page(s) 2967-2976, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03828-y

Parental Divorce and Children's Partnership Dynamics

Author(s): Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Arno Van Hootegem, Torkild H. Lyngstad
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.70050

An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children

Author(s): Baier, Tina; Eilertsen, Espen Moen; Ystrøm, Eivind; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde
Published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Issue 79, 2022, ISSN 0276-5624
Publisher: JAI Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100691

Parental separation and children's genetic influences on education

Author(s): Zachary Van Winkle, Tina Baier
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, Issue 87, 2025, Page(s) 1084-1105, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.13067

The Production of Inequalities within Families and across Generations: The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Author(s): Kieron J. Barclay, Torkild H. Lyngstad, Dalton C. Conley
Published in: European Sociological Review, Issue Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2021, 2021, Page(s) 607-625, ISSN 0266-7215
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcab005

Fertility Intentions Across Five Decades in Norway

Author(s): Lars Dommermuth, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Kenneth Aarskaug Wiik
Published in: Comparative Population Studies, Issue 50, 2025, ISSN 1869-8980
Publisher: Federal Institute for Population Research (Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung, BiB)
DOI: 10.12765/cpos-2025-09

The nature of the relation between mental wellbeing and illbeing

Author(s): Christian K. Tamnes, Mona Bekkhus, Maja Eilertsen, Ragnhild B. Nes, Monica Beer Prydz, Eivind Ystrom, Eira R. Aksnes, Synøve N. Andersen, Helga Ask, Ziada Ayorech, Tina Baier, Dani Beck, Eirik Jerven Berger, Ludvig D. Bjørndal, Olga D. Boer, Marieke Bos, Avshalom Caspi, Rosa Cheesman, Razieh Chegeni, Laura Cortés-García, Perline A. Demange, Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, Maud Edvoll, Nikolai Haahjem
Published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2025, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer-Nature
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/9jk2x_v3

Education and Income Show Heterogeneous Relationships to Lifespan Brain and Cognitive Differences Across European and US Cohorts

Author(s): Kristine B Walhovd, Anders M Fjell, Yunpeng Wang, Inge K Amlien, Athanasia M Mowinckel, Ulman Lindenberger, Sandra Düzel, David Bartrés-Faz, Klaus P Ebmeier, Christian A Drevon, William F C Baaré, Paolo Ghisletta, Louise Baruël Johansen, Rogier A Kievit, Richard N Henson, Kathrine Skak Madsen, Lars Nyberg, Jennifer R Harris, Cristina Solé-Padullés, Sara Pudas, Øystein Sørensen, René Weste
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, Issue 32, 2022, Page(s) 839-854, ISSN 1047-3211
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab248

Does Parental Separation Lower Genetic Influences on Children's School Performance?

Author(s): Tina Baier, Zachary Van Winkle
Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, 2020, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0022-2445
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12730

Social Background Effects on Educational Outcomes—New Insights from Modern Genetic Science

Author(s): Tina Baier, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Issue 76, 2024, Page(s) 525-545, ISSN 0023-2653
Publisher: V S - Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften
DOI: 10.1007/s11577-024-00970-2

Birth order differences in education originate in postnatal environments

Author(s): Martin Arstad Isungset, Jeremy Freese, Ole Andreassen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 1(2), 2022, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac051

The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway

Author(s): Joakim Coleman Ebeltoft, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Rosa Cheesman, Ziada Ayorech, Arno Van Hootegem, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Eivind Ystrom
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58961-6