21 citations · 27 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for
8 papers
Sources of Inequality at Birth: The Interplay Between Genes and Parental Socioeconomic Status
Pietro Biroli, Nicolau Martin-Bassols, Andries T. Marees +7
The start of a human's life can be characterized by two lotteries: that of your genes (nature) and the family you were born into (nurture). These set in motion a trajectory, from b…
Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service
Nicolau Martin-Bassols, Pietro Biroli, Elisabetta De Cao +3
The establishment of the UK National Health Service (NHS) in July 1948 was one of the most consequential health policy interventions of the twentieth century, providing universal a…
Aggregating Epigenetic Clocks to Study Human Capital Formation
Giorgia Menta, Pietro Biroli, Divya Mehta +2
Epigenetics is the study of how people's behavior and environments influence the way their genes are expressed, even though their DNA sequence is itself unchanged. By aggregating a…
Beyond Time: Unveiling the Invisible Burden of Mental Load
Francesca Barigozzi, Pietro Biroli, Chiara Monfardini +3
This paper introduces a novel, scalable methodology to measure individual perceptions of gaps in mental load -- the cognitive and emotional burden associated with organizing househ…
Seeing Stereotypes
Elisa Baldazzi, Pietro Biroli, Marina Della Giusta +1
Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students' confidence, perfo…
Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli, Hans van Kippersluis +1
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond 1986 show a strong…
Gene-Environment Interplay in the Social Sciences
Rita Dias Pereira, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama +4
Nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) jointly contribute to the formation and evolution of health and human capital over the life cycle. This complex interplay betwe…
The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay
Pietro Biroli, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke +3
Economists and social scientists have debated the relative importance of nature (one's genes) and nurture (one's environment) for decades, if not centuries. This debate can now be…