Grandmothers work less, have lower incomes, and experience respiratory infections more often. But they have fewer mental health problems compared with people of the same age who have not yet become gr...

While the effects of the transition to parenthood are well researched, less is known about how the transition to grandparenthood affects health and...

Background From a functionalist perspective, parenting behaviors have adaptive functions and are partly expressions of genetic variation. Maternal genes that have effects on children are often refer...

Güllich et al. argue that among elite performers there is a negative associationbetween early and adult performance, a pattern they link to distinct developmentalcausal mechanisms for early, and adult...

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

Do you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p...

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Fallende skoleprestasjoner og økt fravær avdekker et skrikende behov for kunnskap for å møte vår tids utfordringer. Til det trenger vi registre fra skoler og barnehager, skriver Martin Flatø, Fartein ...

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Pervasive genetic overlap across human complex traits necessitates developing multivariate methods that can parse pleiotropic and trait-specific genetic signals. Here, we introduce Genomic Network Ana...

By analyzing 187,926 Norwegian first-time parents, researchers found that partners are more similar in mental than physical health, with mental health similarity increasing over time. Educational simi...

This study, using population-wide data from Norway, found that school performance was a stronger predictor of young adult death than parental education or earnings and largely explained the socioecono...

Barn av lavt utdannede foreldre gjør det dårligere på skolen, og ender ofte opp med lavere utdanning, lavere inntekt, og høyere arbeidsledighet enn andre. Hvorfor er det slik?

Barn av lavt utdannede foreldre gjør det dårligere på skolen, og ender ofte opp med lavere utdanning, lavere inntekt, og høyere arbeidsledighet enn andre. Hvorfor er det slik?

Background: Lower parental income is associated with more psychiatric disorders among offspring, but it is unclear if this association reflects effects of parental income (social causation) or shared ...

Job descriptionThe Department of Special Needs Education (ISP) at the University of Oslo, Norway, invites applicants for a 3 year full-time position as PhD