SubsidieMeestersThe PsychoGeography of Intergenerational Mobility: Early life socioeconomic position, mental health, and educational performance
The GeoGen study aims to explore the impact of socioeconomic status and genetic factors on children's mental health and educational outcomes using comprehensive data from Norway since 1940.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Surging inequality is a defining feature of the world children grow up in today. The neighborhood they live in stages a primary developmental context where this feature of our present time plays out.
Socio-Economic Status and Child Development
Children's demographic and socio-economic status (SES) is given by the status of their parents. Parental and neighborhood SES is associated with child mental health and educational performance, and childhood is a vulnerable period.
Research Proposal
To understand how and why early life socioeconomic position is linked to mental health and educational performance, I propose a groundbreaking paradigm generalizing temporal, spatial, social, genetic, and individual levels of inference. I will do this by having genomically similar children growing up in different families, at different places, and at different times.
These multitudes of counterfactuals will allow me to jointly evaluate hypotheses on:
- Selection and causation
- Risk and protection factors for mental health and academic outcomes
Objectives of the GeoGen Study
The GeoGen study will render a new understanding of:
- How transmission of risk is transmitted across generations
- How early mental health is an antecedent of academic failure
- The interactions between genetic risk and protective contextual factors
- Characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that are optimal for children's psychological development
Methodology
I will use Norway since 1940 as a laboratory (n=8,400,000) with registries giving full genealogy and year-by-year event data on:
- Place of residence
- Indicators of SES
- Mental health
- Educational performance
Within this, I will nest a population-based cohort study comprising genotyping of families (n=240,000 in 110,000 families) and a wide array of survey data, such as non-cognitive skills.
The combination of having data on all people in all schools and neighborhoods over time allows me to do an unprecedented study on the gene-environment interplay between risk and protective factors for mental health and academic outcomes.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 2.158.630 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 2.158.630 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-9-2022 |
| Einddatum | 31-8-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- UNIVERSITETET I OSLOpenvoerder
Land(en)
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