Tina Baier, Ph.D.
Tina Baier is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the research department Skill formation and Labor Markets. She is working within the Einstein Center for Population Dynamics (ECPD) on the project “Evaluating the Relation between Family Diversity and Educational Inequalities”. Her research interests include social stratification and intergenerational transmission of social inequality, family, education, and social science genetics.
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Since 05/2024 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Department Skill Formation and Labor Markets at WZB.
Since 05/2024 Guest Researcher Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo.
2020 - 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow of ERC Project Openflux, Department of Sociology and Human Geography University of Oslo.
2019 Ph.D. in Sociology, Bielefeld University. Title of Dissertation: What have Genes got to do with it? How Social and Genetic Influences Contribute to Differences in Educational Success within the Family.
2018 - 2020 Research Fellow at Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Department Educational Decisions and Processes, Migration, Returns to Education.
2015 - 2016 Research Associate at Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Zif) at Bielefeld University, Research Group Genetic and Social Causes of Life Chances.
2013 - 2018 Research Fellow of DFG Long-Term Project TwinLife, Department of Sociology Bielefeld University.
2012-2013 Research Fellow of the project group at the president, WZB.
2011 Research Assistant of the project group at the President "Study-entitled and first-year university students in North-Rhine/Westphalia: Developments and challenges 2000 – 2010", WZB
2008 - 2012 M.A. Sociology Programme, University of Mannheim.
2008 - 2009 Graduate Sociology Programme, Indiana University, Bloomington (DAAD Scholarship)
2010/2011 Student Research Assistant at the Chair in Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Mannheim.
2006-2008 Student Research Assistant of the project „Educational decisions in Migrant families“, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
2005 - 2008 B.A. Programme Sociology and History, University of Mannheim
Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed
Baier, T. and Lyngstad, T.H. (forthcoming). Social background effects on educational outcomes - New insights from modern genetic science. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie.
Nivard, M.G., Belsky, D., Harden, K.P., Baier, T., Andreassen, O.A., Ystrom, E., van Bergen, E., and Lyngstad, T.H. (2024). More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children’s academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes. Nature Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01796-2.
Ghirardi, G., Baier, T., Kleinert, C., and Triventi, M. (2022). Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany, European Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac048 (online first).
Baier, T., Eilertsen, E.M., Ystrøm, E., Zambrana, I.M. and Lyngstad, T.H. (2022). An Anatomy of the Intergenerational Correlation of Educational Attainment –Learning from the Educational Attainments of Norwegian Twins and their Children. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 79, 100691. doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100691.
Baier, T., Lang, V., Grätz, M., Barclay, K. J., Conley, D., Dawes, C.T., Laidley, T. and Lyngstad, T.H. (2022). Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-national Perspective. European Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcac014 (online first).
Erola, J., Lehti, H., Baier, T. and Karhula, A. (2021). Socioeconomic Background and Gene–Environment Interplay in Social Stratification across the Early Life Course. European Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab026 (online first).
Baier, T. and Van Winkle, Z. (2020). Does Parental Separation lower Genetic Influences on Children’s School-Related Skills? The Journal of Marriage and Family, 83, 898–917. doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12730.
Baier, T. and Lang, V. (2019). The Social Stratification of Environmental and Genetic Influences on Educational Attainment: New Evidence Using a Register-Based Twin Sample. Sociological Science, 6, 143–171. doi:10.15195/v6.a6.
Baier, T. (2019). Does Sibling and Twin Similarity in Cognitive Ability Differ by Parents’ Education? Journal of Family Research, 1, 58–82. doi:10.3224/zff.v31i1.04.
Hahn, E., Gottschling, J., Bleidorn, W., Kandler, C., Spengler, M., Kornadt, A.E., Schulz, W., Schunck, R., Baier, T., Krell, K., Lang, V., Lenau, F., Peters, A.-L., Diewald, M., Riemann, R. and Spinath, F.M. (2016). What Drives the Development of Social Inequality over the Life Course? The German TwinLife Study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19, 6, 659–672. doi:10.1017/thg.2016.76.
Diewald, M., Baier, T., Schunck, R. and Schulz, W. (2015). Status Attainment and Social Mobility - How Can Genetics Contribute to an Understanding of their Causes? Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 67, 1 (Supplement Social Demography), 371–395. doi:10.1007/978-3-658- 11490-9_16.
Diewald, M., Schulz, W. and Baier, T. (2015). Intergenerational Downward Mobility in Educational Attainment and Occupational Careers in West Germany in the Twentieth Century. European Sociological Review, 31, 2, 172–183. doi:10.1093/esr/jcv010.
Baier, T. and Helbig, M. (2014). Much Ado about €500: Do Tuition Fees Keep German Students from Entering University? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Using DiD Matching Methods. Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 20, 2, 98–121. doi:10.1080/13803611.2014.881745.
Helbig, M., T. Baier, A. Marczuk, K. Rothe und B. Edelstein (2011): " „…und warum studierst du dann nicht?“ Bundesländerspezifische Unterschiede des Studienaufnahmeverhaltens von Studienberechtigten in Deutschland." WZB Disussion Paper P 2011-002.
Helbig, M., Baier, T. and Kroth, A. (2012). Die Auswirkung von Studiengebühren auf die Studierneigung in Deutschland: Evidenz aus einem natürlichen Experiment auf Basis der HIS-Studienberechtigtenbefragung. [The Effect of Tuition Fees on the Inclination to Study in Germany: Evidence from Natural Experiment Based on a HIS Survey of Individuals Eligible for University Entrance]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 41, 3, 227–246. doi:10.1515/zfsoz-2012-0305.
Baier, Tina und Marcel Helbig (2011):“War all die Aufregung umsonst? Über die Auswirkung der Einführung von Studiengebühren auf die Studienbereitschaft in Deutschland." WZB Discussion Paper P 2011-01.
Helbig, Marcel und Tina Baier: Gebühren mindern Studierneigung nicht. > WZBrief Bildung 10/2011.
Dissertation
Baier T. (2020). What Have Genes Got to do with it? How Social and Genetic Influences Contribute to Differences in Educational Success within the Family. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld. doi:10.4119/unibi/2940317.