Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons’ and dau...

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...

There has been a terrifying ‘logic’ to the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka which came to its very sad conclusion in the third week of May 2009. It is easy to understand why people living in Colombo and the south-western part of Sri Lanka felt very relieved and even enthused by the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tiger after twenty-six years of insecurity and conflict. However, any sense of victo...