Fartein Ask Torvik
@farteinask
Social inequality and behavior genetics. Senior researcher/associate professor at Norwegian Institute of Public Health & University of Oslo.
Important work on correlations between partners (assortative mating). These results show widespread assortment across educational and mental health traits that is not entirely explained by 'direct assortment', i.e. matching on measured phenotypes. This has important…
(1/10) Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! “Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health”. In the paper, we study partner similarities before they (were likely to have) met. nature.com/articles/s4146…
New paper! We look at partner similarity *before partner formation*, across health traits and education. Correlations across psychiatric traits are ubiquitous, become larger in established couples, and are only partly explained by education. See Fartein's🧵for more:
(1/10) Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! “Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health”. In the paper, we study partner similarities before they (were likely to have) met. nature.com/articles/s4146…
A study just came out showing couples' trait correlations cross-sectionally and a few years before having kids. Couples tend to have similar levels of education and GPAs, to share substance use disorders, and to show broad similarity in terms of mental and physical health.
Psykisk helse hos barn varierer sterkt etter foreldrenes inntekt og utdanning. Hvorfor er det sånn? I fire år har vi forsket på sosial ulikhet, psykisk helse og genetikk. Kom på Kulturhuset onsdag 20. november kl. 9, så får du høre hva vi har funnet ut! fhi.no/om/kurs-og-kon…
It's not surprising that pro-family policies that cover like 2-6% of the cost of raising a child aren't sufficient to counteract other cultural and technological trends that are reducing fertility. It's just not much money. ft.com/content/838eeb…
Accompanying the preprint is an interactive figure where you can find the prevalence of all psychological codes in ICPC-2 across age and parental income: hfsu.shinyapps.io/prevalence_by_…
We have a new preprint!📰Here, we describe the association between parental income and psychiatric disorders from childhood and into adulthood, and use children of twins and siblings to differentiate social selection from social causation (1/n)🧵 Link: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…
New paper alert!🚨In our new @NatMentHealth paper, we analyse over 350 million patient encounters across 14 years in Norwegian primary care, and find that 1 out of every 9 visits concerns mental health conditions!🧵Paper: nature.com/articles/s4422…