Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

The development of body mass index from adolescence to adulthood: A genotype-family socioeconomic status interaction study

G. Ghirardi

Social Science & Medicine (2025)

Socioeconomic status, genotype, and the differential effects of parental separation on educational attainment

F. Bernardi & G. Ghirardi

Demography (2025)

Center-based ECEC closes gaps, others may widen them: A decomposition of how different childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality

G. Ghirardi & F. Gioachin

Acta Sociologica (2025)

Compensating or boosting genetic propensities? Gene-family socioeconomic status interactions by educational outcome selectivity

G. Ghirardi & F. Bernardi

Social Science Research (2025)

Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: No evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes

G. Ghirardi, C. Gil-Hernández, F. Bernardi, E. van Bergen & P. Demange

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2024)

Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany

G. Ghirardi, T. Baier, C. Kleinert & M. Triventi

European Sociological Review (2022)

Book chapters

Genetics of Education: From Research to Policy to Improve Educational Performance and Equality

K. Stienstra & G. Ghirardi

In The Biological Turn in Education Policy: Navigating Minds, eds. Mattei, Kyriazi, Ydesen & Stieger

Comments

Embryo screening and the new reproductive divide

G. Ghirardi, A. Van Hootegem & K. P. Harden

Nature Human Behaviour (2026)

Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality

A. Van Hootegem & G. Ghirardi

Fertility and Sterility (2025)