Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298019 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2024-012/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
I offer 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, I empirically illustrate this reappraisal of heritability studies by estimating two different gene-environment interactions in test scores from a highstakes national educational achievement test
Subjects: 
Education
Equality of opportunity
Inequality
Heritability
Public policy
JEL: 
I24
I38
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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