Paul Taubman

Paul James Taubman (1939 – 1995)[1] was an American economist who taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted a prominent twin study on the heritability of income, which was published in 1976.[2][3] This study has been cited as a pioneering one in the field of genoeconomics.[4] Subsequently, Arthur Goldberger published a paper critiquing Taubman's study, noting that heritability estimates were highly sensitive to assumptions about the degree of overlap between genetic and environmental variables.[5] During the 1970s, Taubman also researched the effect of schooling on individual earnings among World War II veterans.[6]

  1. ^ Rosenzweig, M. R.; Stark, Oded (1997-05-07). Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Gulf Professional Publishing. p. 560. ISBN 9780444826459.
  2. ^ Taubman, Paul (1976). "The Determinants of Earnings: Genetics, Family, and Other Environments: A Study of White Male Twins". The American Economic Review. 66 (5): 858–870. ISSN 0002-8282. JSTOR 1827497.
  3. ^ Berkowitz, Edward D.; Santangelo, Mark J.; Medicine, Institute of (1999-08-24). The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996. National Academies Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780309596954.
  4. ^ Neyfakh, Leon (2012-05-13). "In search of the money gene". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
  5. ^ Conley, Dalton; Fletcher, Jason (2018-11-13). The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future. Princeton University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780691183169.
  6. ^ Passell, Peter (1992-08-19). "Twins Study Shows School Is Sound Investment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-18.