Social selection, social causation and developmental pathways: Empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life course

A. Caspi

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489761.012

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Social selection, social causation and developmental pathways: Empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life course

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Social selection, social causation and developmental pathways: Empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life course

A. Caspi

Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course, pp.281-301

Cambridge University Press

2002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511489761.012

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mental health

life-course

development

social inequality

This chapter reviews different empirical strategies for disentangling social-selection from social-causation effects. It draws on the author's longitudinal-epidemiological and quantitative genetics research to show how such designs can be more effectively utilized to study causal processes.

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Record Identifier: 9926479078201891
Title: Social selection, social causation and developmental pathways: Empirical strategies for better understanding how individuals and environments are linked across the life course
Creators: A. Caspi
Contributors: L. Pulkinnen (Editor)
A. Caspi (Editor)
Publication Details: Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course, pp.281-301
Academic Unit: Psychology; Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit (DMHDRU)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date published ; e-published: 2002
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