Dalton Conley
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- PhD Sociology Columbia University
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dalton Clark Conley is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books, including a memoir and a sociology textbook. Education Conley attended Stuyvesant High School. He subsequently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in humanities and from Columbia University with an M.P.A. in public policy and a Ph.D. in sociology. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in biology from NYU.
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Published Works
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals (2018) (1401)
- Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment (2016) (1114)
- Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America. (1999) (848)
- GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment (2013) (803)
- Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (563)
- The effects of poverty on child health and development. (1997) (548)
- Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (421)
- Is biology destiny? Birth weight and life chances (2000) (415)
- Capital for college: Parental assets and postsecondary schooling (2001) (338)
- Parental Educational Investment and Children’s Academic Risk Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variation in Fertility (2006) (331)
- Genetic Associations with Subjective Well-Being Also Implicate Depression and Neuroticism (2015) (276)
- Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (2014) (262)
- The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences (2012) (256)
- Social Class: How Does it Work? (2008) (247)
- Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group (2019) (217)
- Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies (2018) (190)
- Black-white achievement gap and family wealth. (2008) (174)
- Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults (2014) (158)
- Sibship Sex Composition: Effects on Educational Attainment (2000) (152)
- Gender, body mass, and socioeconomic status: new evidence from the PSID. (2007) (134)
- Birth weight and income: interactions across generations. (2001) (128)
- Home Ownership, Social Insurance, and the Welfare State (2006) (124)
- Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment (2015) (113)
- What Money Doesn’t Buy: Class Resources and Children’s Participation in Organized Extracurricular Activities (2015) (113)
- The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (2003) (110)
- A Room With a View or a Room of One's Own? Housing and Social Stratification (2001) (108)
- Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins (2013) (101)
- Replicability and Robustness of Genome-Wide-Association Studies for Behavioral Traits (2014) (99)
- Is the Effect of Parental Education on Offspring Biased or Moderated by Genotype? (2015) (91)
- Welfare State and Infant Mortality1 (2001) (90)
- The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (2017) (89)
- Decomposing the Black‐White Wealth Gap: The Role of Parental Resources, Inheritance, and Investment Dynamics (2001) (86)
- Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals (2022) (80)
- Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals (2022) (80)
- The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (2004) (79)
- Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century (2016) (79)
- Mortality selection in a genetic sample and implications for association studies. (2017) (79)
- Explaining sibling differences in achievement and behavioral outcomes: The importance of within- and between-family factors (2007) (78)
- The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future (2017) (72)
- The Promise and Challenges of Incorporating Genetic Data into Longitudinal Social Science Surveys and Research (2009) (62)
- All in the family?: Family composition, resources, and sibling similarity in socioeconomic status (2008) (62)
- The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates From the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery (2009) (61)
- Twin differences in birth weight: the effects of genotype and prenatal environment on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality. (2006) (59)
- The challenge of causal inference in gene-environment interaction research: leveraging research designs from the social sciences. (2013) (56)
- Color and Money: Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America (2001) (54)
- Africa&Apos;S Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology (2007) (49)
- Socio-Genomic Research Using Genome-Wide Molecular Data (2016) (46)
- Changing Polygenic Penetrance on Phenotypes in the 20th Century Among Adults in the US Population (2016) (40)
- A Pound of Flesh or Just Proxy? Using Twin Differences to Estimate the Effect of Birth Weight on Life Chances (2003) (39)
- The Racial Wealth Gap: Origins and Implications for Philanthropy in the African American Community (2000) (38)
- The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become (2004) (36)
- Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affulent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety (2010) (35)
- Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment (2010) (34)
- The effect of daughters on partisanship and social attitudes toward women (2013) (34)
- The Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genotype on Smoking Behavior and Health (2015) (33)
- Cohort Effects in the Genetic Influence on Smoking (2016) (33)
- Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness (2014) (31)
- Race and the inheritance of low birth weight (2000) (30)
- The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes (2016) (29)
- Men's and Women's Gender-Role Attitudes across the Transition to Parenthood: Accounting for Child's Gender (2018) (29)
- Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status: Life Course and Family Resource Effects (2005) (28)
- Modeling Gene-Environment Interactions With Quasi-Natural Experiments. (2017) (27)
- After the Bell: Family Background, Public Policy and Educational Success (Routledge Advances in Sociology) (2004) (25)
- Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation? (2014) (24)
- The Price of Female Headship: Gender, Inheritance and Wealth Accumulation in the United States (2005) (23)
- Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (22)
- New Evidence of Skin Color Bias and Health Outcomes Using Sibling Difference Models: A Research Note (2019) (22)
- Beyond Orchids and Dandelions: Testing the 5-HTT “Risky” Allele for Evidence of Phenotypic Capacitance and Frequency-Dependent Selection (2013) (20)
- The Emergence of Socio-Genomics (2014) (20)
- A sibling method for identifying vQTLs (2018) (20)
- Getting into the Black: Race, Wealth, and Public Policy (1999) (19)
- Getting it together: Social and institutional obstacles to getting off the streets (1996) (19)
- The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability (2011) (19)
- Effects of the peer metagenomic environment on smoking behavior (2019) (18)
- The Bell Curve Revisited: Testing Controversial Hypotheses with Molecular Genetic Data (2016) (18)
- The causal effects of Vietnam-era military service on post-war family dynamics. (2013) (18)
- Black-White Differences in Occupational Prestige (2005) (17)
- Body Mass Index and Physical Attractiveness: Evidence From a Combination Image-Alteration/List Experiment (2011) (17)
- The implication of health insurance for child development and maternal nutrition: evidence from China (2016) (16)
- Outcomes in young adulthood for very-low-birth-weight infants. (2002) (16)
- Geographic Clustering of Polygenic Scores at Different Stages of the Life Course (2018) (14)
- How social learning adds up to a culture: from birdsong to human public opinion (2017) (14)
- Family Background, Race, and Labor Market Inequality (2007) (14)
- Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers: Fertility, Child Mortality & Malaria Ecology (2010) (14)
- Wealth and poverty in America: A reader (2003) (14)
- Child-Driven Parenting: Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype (2020) (14)
- Health Shocks and Social Drift: Examining the Relationship Between Acute Illness and Family Wealth (2016) (12)
- Birth weight, infant mortality, and race: twin comparisons and genetic/environmental inputs. (2012) (12)
- From Assortative to Ashortative Coupling: Men&Apos;S Height, Height Heterogamy, and Relationship Dynamics in the United States (2014) (12)
- Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth: Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects (2011) (12)
- The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship (2010) (11)
- Malaria ecology, child mortality & fertility (2017) (11)
- Bribery or just desserts? Evidence on the influence of Congressional reproductive policy voting patterns on PAC contributions from exogenous variation in the sex mix of legislator offspring. (2012) (10)
- Opinion: Past is future for the era of COVID-19 research in the social sciences (2021) (10)
- Socio-Genomics and Structural Competency (2016) (10)
- Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945. By William A. Darity, Jr. and Samuel L. Myers. Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishers, 1998. Pp. 191. $80.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). (2001) (9)
- The Equal Environments Assumption in the Post-Genomic Age: Using Misclassified Twins to Estimate Bias in Heritability Models (2011) (9)
- The impact of late-career job loss and genetic risk on body mass index: Evidence from variance polygenic scores (2021) (9)
- The effects of health and wealth shocks on retirement decisions (2013) (9)
- Opinion: Building a 21st-century infrastructure for the social sciences (2014) (9)
- Genome-Wide Estimates of Heritability for Social Demographic Outcomes (2016) (9)
- Polygenic Scores for Plasticity: A New Tool for Studying Gene-Environment Interplay (2020) (9)
- Commentary: Mendelian randomization and education-Challenges remain. (2020) (8)
- Commentary: Reading Plomin and Daniels in the post-genomic age. (2011) (8)
- Reconsidering Risk: Adapting Public Policies to Intergenerational Determinants and Biosocial Interactions in Health-Related Needs (2004) (8)
- The promise of genes for understanding cause and effect (2018) (8)
- Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Performance in Early Adolescence (2021) (7)
- Sibling genes as environment: Sibling dopamine genotypes and adolescent health support frequency dependent selection. (2015) (7)
- Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media (2011) (7)
- A Pound of Flesh (2016) (7)
- Sibling Similarity in Education Across and Within Societies. (2021) (7)
- Learning to Love Animal (Models) (or) How (Not) to Study Genes as a Social Scientist (2011) (6)
- Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences (2019) (6)
- The Influence of Peer Genotypes and Behavior on Smoking Outcomes: Evidence from Add Health (2017) (6)
- You May Ask Yourself (2008) (6)
- Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment: Effects on Academic and Behavioral Outcomes. NBER Working Paper No. 16026. (2010) (6)
- Universal family background effects on education across and within societies (2019) (5)
- In Search of GE: Why We Have Not Documented a Gene–Social Environment Interaction Yet (2011) (5)
- Swapping and the social psychology of disadvantaged American populations (2016) (5)
- Tradeoff Between Distributed Social Learning and Herding Effect in Online Rating Systems (2017) (4)
- Reply to Abdellaoui et al.: Interpreting GAM (2014) (4)
- Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White (2020) (4)
- Correction: Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2018) 115 (E7275-E7284) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801238115) (2018) (4)
- Genotyping a new, national household panel study: White paper prepared for NSF-sponsored Conference, May 2014 (2015) (4)
- Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status (2004) (4)
- Erratum: Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2014) 111 (13790-13794) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404623111) (2015) (4)
- Public attitudes toward genetic risk scoring in medicine and beyond. (2021) (4)
- The Effects of Active and Passive Leisure on Cognition in Children: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Weather (2018) (4)
- The challenges of GxE: Commentary on "Genetic Endowments, parental resources and adult health: Evidence from the Young Finns Study". (2017) (3)
- Build a Bigger House (2011) (3)
- The Impact of Late-Career Job Loss and Genotype on Body Mass Index (2016) (3)
- Gene-environment Interactions and School Tracking during Secondary Education: Evidence from the U.S. (2021) (3)
- Review Essay: Race, Class, and Eyes Upon the Street: Public Space, Social Control, and the Economies of Three Urban Communities (2001) (3)
- Polygenic Scores for Plasticity: A New Tool for Studying Gene-Environment Interplay. (2022) (3)
- Crowd wisdom enhanced by costly signaling in a virtual rating system (2019) (3)
- Forty Acres and a Mule: What if America Pays Reparations? (2002) (3)
- Poverty and Life Chances: The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor (2005) (3)
- Rich Man’s Burden (2017) (3)
- Genetics and Sociology (2015) (2)
- Correction: A sibling method for identifying vQTLs (2018) (2)
- Social and genetic associations with educational performance in a Scandinavian welfare state (2022) (2)
- The Production of Inequalities within Families and Across Generations: The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order and Family Size on Educational Attainment (2018) (2)
- Genotyping the dead: Using offspring as proxy to estimate the genetic correlation of education and longevity (2016) (2)
- Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness (2019) (2)
- Birth Weight and Development: Bias or Heterogeneity by Polygenic Risk Factors? (2019) (2)
- From Fraternities to DNA: The Challenge Genetic Prediction Poses to Insurance Markets. (2019) (2)
- Robust Null Findings on Offspring Sex and Political Orientation (2016) (2)
- Elsewhere, U.S.A (2008) (2)
- Civilian public sector employment as a long-run outcome of military conscription (2019) (1)
- Wired for distraction? like it or not, social media are reprogramming our children's brains. What's a good parent to do? (2011) (1)
- Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Race and Ethnicity (2002) (1)
- How Does a Statistician Raise an Army? The Time When John W. Tukey, a Team of Luminaries, and a Statistics Graduate Student Repaired the Vietnam Selective Service Lotteries (2020) (1)
- America is #⋯ 15? (2009) (1)
- What’s Biology Got to do With It? (2014) (1)
- The Ghost of Merton Past and Present (2021) (1)
- Introduction: American educational policy in historical perspective (2004) (1)
- Family-based association analysis identifies variance-controlling loci without confounding by genotype-environment correlations (2017) (1)
- Tags and a Leaky Pipeline in School Districts’ Allocations to Students (2018) (1)
- Future Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2010) (1)
- Introduction (2017) (1)
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Race and Ethnicity (1)
- Assortative Mating and Differential Fertility by Phenotype and Genotype across the 20 th Century Supplemental Information (2016) (1)
- The Why , What , and How of Class-Based Admissions Policy (2014) (1)
- The Production of Inequalities within Families and across Generations: The Intergenerational Effects of Birth Order on Educational Attainment (2021) (1)
- The Rogue Economist of Freakonomics (2006) (1)
- Introduction: History and Motivation (2017) (1)
- Mortality Selection in a Genetic Sample and Implications for Association Studies (2016) (1)
- Acknowledgment of reviewers (1991) (0)
- Erratum for "Twin differences in birth weight: The effects of genotype and prenatal environment on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality" [Econ. Hum. Biol. 4 (2006) 151-183] (2008) (0)
- Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility. (2023) (0)
- Replication materials for: Johnson, T., & Conley, D. (2019). Civilian public sector employment as a long-run outcome of military conscription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2019) (0)
- Cohort Effects in the Genetic Influence on Smoking (2015) (0)
- The geography of poverty rethinking social policy (2007) (0)
- Black-White Achievement Gap and Family Wealth. National Poverty Center Working Paper Series #07-02. (2006) (0)
- Deaths of Despair: Lessons from the Vietnam Draft Lottery. (2019) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Comprar Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader | Dalton Conley | 9780631231806 | Wiley (2008) (0)
- Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness (2014) (0)
- Jordan Mansell (2018) (0)
- After the bell : educational success, public policy, and family background (2010) (0)
- American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. By Sudhir Venkatesh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+332. $29.95. (2002) (0)
- Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins (2013) (0)
- Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals (2018) (0)
- Correction. (2019) (0)
- Author Correction: The impact of late-career job loss and genetic risk on body mass index: Evidence from variance polygenic scores (2023) (0)
- Commentary on "Public education in the dynamic city: lessons from New York City" (2005) (0)
- Contributions Sociology 1-1-2018 A sibling method for identifying vQTLs (2019) (0)
- The Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genotype on Smoking Behavior and Health (2015) (0)
- Reply to Velu and Iyer: The promise and limits of “near-miss” pandemic-related research (2021) (0)
- Genome-Wide Heritability Estimates for Family Life Course Complexity. (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- William A. Darity and Samuel L. Myers, Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945 :Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States since 1945 (2001) (0)
- A family-based method for leveraging random genetic variation to identify variance-controlling loci (2017) (0)
- Celebrating 50 Years of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (2018) (0)
- The Sociology of Heritability How ( and Why ) Sociologists Should Care About Heritability : Evidence from Misclassified Twins (2011) (0)
- Supplementary Materials for: Variable portability of polygenic scores within an ancestry group (2019) (0)
- Correction (2019) (0)
- Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask (2014) (0)
- Author Correction: Testing the key assumption of heritability estimates based on genome-wide genetic relatedness (2019) (0)
- Correction: Corrigendum: Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Toward a Two-Dimensional Conception of Socioeconomic Status for Health Policy (2020) (0)
- The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Family, Welfare and Work. By Haya Stier and Marta Tienda. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxiii+289. $32.50. (2001) (0)
- Invest in School-Based Health Centers to Improve Child Health (2020) (0)
- The Influence of Cousin Order and Cousin Group Size on Educational Outcomes (2022) (0)
- Six. Learning Class (2019) (0)
- Experimenting With Online Governance (2021) (0)
- Welcome to America (2000) (0)
- A genetically tailored education for birds (2019) (0)
- Chapter 4. Genetic Sorting and Cavorting in American Society (2017) (0)
- Thirteen. Disco Sucks (2019) (0)
- Falling Upward (2011) (0)
- The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor (2005) (0)
- Do people mix at mixers? Structure, Homophily and the Pattern of Encounter at a Business Networking Party Forthcoming in Administrative Science Quarterly (2007) (0)
- Seven. The Hawk (2019) (0)
- Ten. Welcome to America (2019) (0)
- Twelve. Moving On Up (2019) (0)
- Chapter 1. Molecular Me: Welcome to the Coming Social Genomics Revolution (2017) (0)
- Moving On Up (2000) (0)
- Eleven. No Soap Radio (2019) (0)
- Seventeen. Cultural Capital (2019) (0)
- Chapter 5. Is Race Genetic? A New Take on the Most Fraught, Distracting, and Nonsensical Question in the World (2017) (0)
- Pro-Life Mass & Walk for Life 2013 (2013) (0)
- A Rating Device that Imposes Differential Time Costs to Improve Information Quality (2020) (0)
- A Golden Parachute for Everyone (2018) (0)
- Author’s Note (2019) (0)
- Epilogue: Genotocracy Rising, 2117 (2017) (0)
- Chapter 6. The Wealth of Nations: Something in Our Genes? (2017) (0)
- Who You Gonna Call? COVID-19 and the Future of Telemedicine (2020) (0)
- Chapter 3. If Heritability Is So High, Why Can’t We Find It? (2017) (0)
- Chapter 7. The Environment Strikes Back: The Promise and Perils of Personalized Policy (2017) (0)
- Four. Race Lessons (2019) (0)
- TheChallengeofCausalInferenceinGene-Environment InteractionResearch:LeveragingResearchDesigns FromtheSocialSciences (2013) (0)
- Big Art: The New Moma and the Politics of Football (2005) (0)
- CRITICAL-RETROSPECTIVE ESSAY The Emergence of Socio-Genomics (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 15. Unequal Childhoods in Context (2019) (0)
- Conclusion: Whither Genotocracy? (2017) (0)
- Eight. Getting Paid (2019) (0)
- Letters (2002) (0)
- The Economic Red Shift (2022) (0)
- Three. Downward Mobility (2019) (0)
- No Soap Radio (2000) (0)
- Thanks to reviewers of papers submitted 2017-2018 (2019) (0)
- Chapter 2. The Durability of Heritability: Genes and Inequality (2017) (0)
- The Pecking Order (2018) (0)
- Long COVID, Biomarkers, and Health Policy (2021) (0)
- A Rating Method for Improved Accuracy of Customer Evaluations and Cost Savings (2020) (0)
- Military Service and Public Sector Employment: Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records (2019) (0)
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