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The Great Recession, genetic sensitivity, and maternal harsh parenting

Dohoon Lee, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Sara S. McLanahan, Daniel Notterman, and Irwin Garfinkel
PNAS first published August 5, 2013; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1312398110
Dohoon Lee
aDepartment of Sociology, New York University, New York, NY 10012;
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  • For correspondence: mclanaha@princeton.edu dohoon.lee@nyu.edu ig3@columbia.edu
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
bTeachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027;
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Sara S. McLanahan
cCenter for Research on Child Wellbeing and Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;
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  • For correspondence: mclanaha@princeton.edu dohoon.lee@nyu.edu ig3@columbia.edu
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dCollege of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033; and
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Irwin Garfinkel
eSchool of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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  • For correspondence: mclanaha@princeton.edu dohoon.lee@nyu.edu ig3@columbia.edu
  1. Contributed by Sara S. McLanahan, June 30, 2013 (sent for review May 2, 2013)

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Abstract

Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study examined the effects of the Great Recession on maternal harsh parenting. We found that changes in macroeconomic conditions, rather than current conditions, affected harsh parenting, that declines in macroeconomic conditions had a stronger impact on harsh parenting than improvements in conditions, and that mothers’ responses to adverse economic conditions were moderated by the DRD2 Taq1A genotype. We found no evidence of a moderating effect for two other, less well-studied SNPs from the DRD4 and DAT1 genes.

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: mclanaha{at}princeton.edu, dohoon.lee{at}nyu.edu, or ig3{at}columbia.edu.
  • Author contributions: D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. designed research; D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. performed research; D.L. and D.N. analyzed data; and D.L., J.B.-G., S.S.M., D.N., and I.G. wrote the paper.

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Recession, genetic sensitivity, and harsh parenting
Dohoon Lee, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Sara S. McLanahan, Daniel Notterman, Irwin Garfinkel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2013, 201312398; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312398110

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