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DIVERGE Diverging Destinies: Introducing the Role of Social Environment and Genetic Sensitivity in the Effects of Family Instability

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A research project funded by the European Unions Horizon 2020 MSCA programme, grant agreement No. 707099

By Lisbeth Loft, PhD

Social Scientist, Data Analyst, Problem Solver

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    • Jul 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Family Instability and Genetic Sensitivity - Improving Our Understanding of Social Environments

    New working paper in progress Social inequality is at the heart of sociology. With genetic and biological data being made increasingly available to sociologi...
    • Jan 29, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Question of Duration and Differential Susceptibility

    New working paper in progress The conventional way to think about heterogeneity in responses to a social environmental exposure is if a response exists, and ...
    • Aug 13, 2017
    • 2 min

    How Socio-Economic Origin Impacts Gradients in Children’s Health

    Studies examining the effects of socio-economic background on health outcomes is largely based on estimation of mean effects. This study provides evidence th...
    • May 10, 2017
    • 1 min

    DIVERGE Research Presented at Parliamentary Hearing

    Today I presented DIVERGE and gene-environment research at a hearing at the Danish Parlement. The hearing was on children and the benefits of early intervent...
    • Feb 23, 2017
    • 3 min

    The Persistence of Poverty and Father Absence

    Results from DIVERGE find that children born in poor health has a 2-fold elevated relative risk of being raised in poor families and a 60 percent elevated re...
    • Dec 8, 2016
    • 1 min

    DIVERGE at "Better Lives for Children and Youth in Denmark

    The new frontiers in inequality research conducted in DIVERGE is to be presented at a large-scale national conference with participation from NGOs, journalis...