SciLux podcast – Giorgia Menta, Applied Microeconomist

03 October 2023

Genetics and Economics

Can the genes predict our future? Using tools from biology, Giorgia Menta is studying how differences in genetic endowments (the so-called “genetic lottery”) can moderate the associations between exogenous changes in working and living conditions and individual behaviours and wellbeing.

Giorgia Menta is a postdoctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), in the Department of Living Conditions. Her work focuses on inequality research and the economics of education, gender, and health. In her research, she sometimes uses individual genetic and epigenetic data to explore how genetic endowments interact with environmental exposures and affect the persistence of intergenerational inequalities.

Listen to Giorgia Menta from LISER to learn more about the topic of socio-economic inequalities, and the growing field of social science genomics.

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