There are long traditions in studying either neighborhood factors, parental factors, or genetic factors for children’s mental health and educational performance. The ELiSE project will address the impact of early life socioeconomic factors for mental health and educational success, while evaluating theories for children’s individual sensitivity to household, school, and community environments
The PhD fellowship is directed at rendering a new understanding of: (1) Intergenerational transmission: How parental socioeconomic status and non-cognitive skills directly and indirectly affect child mental health and educational performance; (2) Mental health as a process: Reveal whether children do well at school despite their low socioeconomic background if they are mentally healthy, (3) Sensitivity to the environment: Evaluate models for how individual risk and resources for illbeing, wellbeing, and educational performance are differentially expressed across total school and community environments, and (4) Specific developmental contexts: Identify school and community characteristics that reduces individual risk and augment individual resources.
Read more about the position and apply by August 10th, 2023.