Social, environmental, and genetic influences on human development
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation includes three chapters that explore the ways in which social, environmental, and genetic forces combine to shape human development. I hope to blur the line between the social and the biological sciences and investigate how research at their intersection can inform public policy. I am particularly interested in how developmental factors from the prenatal period through childhood cascade out across the life course and affect downstream social, economic, and health outcomes. In my first chapter, I use quasi-experimental methods to estimate the causal effects of the Flint Water Crisis on educational outcomes. In my second chapter, I unpack molecular genetic discoveries related to birth weight using data from two genotyped longitudinal studies. In my third chapter, I show how the indirect (i.e. socially mediated) genetic effects that parents have on their children, known as genetic nurture effects, introduce bias into large-scale molecular genetic studies. I believe—and hope that my dissertation illustrates —that combining mathematical modeling, causal inference, and descriptive analysis will be crucial for the development of a more unified framework for understanding how social and biological forces shape individual well-being and produce inequality
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Trejo, Sam |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Domingue, Ben |
| Thesis advisor | Domingue, Ben |
| Thesis advisor | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
| Thesis advisor | Freese, Jeremy |
| Thesis advisor | Jacob, Brian A |
| Degree committee member | Dee, Thomas S. (Thomas Sean) |
| Degree committee member | Freese, Jeremy |
| Degree committee member | Jacob, Brian A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sam Trejo |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2020 by Sam Trejo
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