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The Influence of Peer Genotypes and Behavior on Smoking Outcomes : Evidence from Add Health
Sotoudeh, Ramina - 2017
We introduce a novel use of genetic data for studying social influences on behavior: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we deploy the distribution of genotypes in a given grade within a school to instrument the influence of peer smoking on...
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"There She Is, Your Ideal" Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide novel evidence on the role of negative social comparisons in population health behaviors by exploiting variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and more pageant-related internet search behavior following a...
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Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Daysal, N. Meltem; Elder, Todd E.; Hellerstein, Judith K.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find...
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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2018
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a linear index -- known as a polygenic score -- are associated with human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes in the Health and...
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Molecular Genetics, Risk Aversion, Return Perceptions, and Stock Market Participation
Sias, Richard - 2020
We show that molecular variation in DNA related to cognition, personality, health, and body shape, predicts an individual's equity market participation and risk aversion. Moreover, the molecular genetic endowments predict individuals' return perceptions, most of which we find to be strikingly...
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Social and Genetic Effects on Educational Performance in Early Adolescence
Isunget, Martin A.; Conley, Dalton; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
sufficient attention to genetics. This study is based on the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …
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Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality
Barth, Daniel - 2018
from recent advances in behavioral genetics linking specific observed genetic endowments to economic outcomes …
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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes : an Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
Böckerman, Petri - 2016
from the genetics literature is consistent with instrument validity. The results of the IV models indicate weight reduces …
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How Do Patents Affect Follow-On Innovation? Evidence from the Human Genome
Sampat, Bhaven - 2015
We investigate whether patents on human genes have affected follow-on scientific research and product development. Using administrative data on successful and unsuccessful patent applications submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, we link the exact gene sequences claimed in each...
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Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar...
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