BACKGROUND The colonial war that Portugal was involved in between 1961 and 1974 had a significant impact on veterans and their families. However, it is unclear what the consequences of this war are, in particular with regard to levels of childhood maltreatment (CM) in offspring. OBJECTIVE Our study aims to analyze the influences of fathers' war exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD...

BACKGROUND The primary aim of this study was to examine differences in physiological reactivity (measured via pupillometry) to emotional stimuli between children of depressed versus nondepressed mothers. A second goal was to examine differences in pupil dilation to emotional stimuli between children of anxious versus nonanxious mothers. METHOD Participants included 117 mother-child pairs draw...

This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' (GPs) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The estimated gap in earnings between 'good' and 'bad' cohorts can be as large as 25%. GPs who began the...

We analyse the long-run intergenerational correlation of employment in Europe, providing cross-country evidence. Using 2011 special module on Intergenerational Transmission, from European Union Statistics Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), we between current status respondents, that their parents when respondents were 14 years old, nine countries. Estimates show varies across countries by ...

For different motives, couples in need of third party assisted reproduction sometimes prefer the help of a family member over an unrelated collaborator. Quantitative (frequency) and qualitative (experience) data about this practice are lacking or scarce. Forms of intrafamilial medically assisted reproduction (IMAR) are different with respect to (i) familial closeness between the collaborator an...

BACKGROUND There is striking social variation in the timing of the onset of childbearing in contemporary England, with the mean age at first motherhood about 8 years earlier in the most deprived compared to the least deprived neighbourhoods. However, relatively little is known about how these social differences in reproductive schedule develop in childhood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We s...

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother’s side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more developed countries suggests a stronger transmission of trust, but the heterogeneity in ancestry dissip...

The conclusions drawn by Auty et al – that the development and persistence of psychopathic personality characteristics is most likely down to both genetic and environmental factors – are well-judged, modest, and consistent with their results. Their report highlights a large and potentially important dataset, and the topic of intergenerational transmission of personality characteristics is under...

Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is one among an increasing number of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases determined as being caused by unstable expansion of CAG repeats coding for polyglutamine stretches. To investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying CAG repeat instability, we established three transgenic lines each harboring a single copy of a full-length human mutant DRPLA...