Genoeconomist Daniel Benjamin of USC Dornsife says that a combination of roughly 1,000 genetic variants across the genome can predict the length of a person’s formal education to a degree comparable with the usual demographic predictors.
Daniel Benjamin of the Center for Economic and Social Research projects a vision of how analyzing the big data of genetics may improve social policy intervention and life outcomes.
The genetic variants found by scientists account for a small fraction of the differences across individuals in education.
Genoeconomist Daniel Benjamin and a team of researchers find three genetic variants associated with how happy or satisfied a person reports feeling about his or her life.
