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marries behavioral genetics with structural econometrics. This allows us to, for the first time, quantify the heritability of …
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Using a large sample of 1,120 twins, we estimated the heritability of trust using four distinct measures of trust - domain-specific political trust, general self-reported trust, and incentivized behavioral trust and trustworthiness. Our results highlight the importance of measuring trust in a...
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loci and a polygenic architecture accounting for 57% of genetic variance in EA. Non-cognitive genetics were as strongly … genetics were further related to openness to experience and other personality traits, less risky behavior, and increased risk … for psychiatric disorders. Non-cognitive genetics were enriched in the same brain tissues and cell types as cognitive …
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We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To tackle confounding due to unobserved factors, we exploit variation in a polygenic score (PGS) for BMI...
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Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...
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combined effects of shared sibling background and experiences, including genetics and family environments. The UK Biobank … allows us to specifically control for sibling and parental genetics (polygenic scores, PGS) in order to gauge their relative …%) contributions of molecular genetics to the similarity of sibling outcomes, suggesting a large amount of the observed similarity in …
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This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...
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Examining the most heavily-cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3000 articles citing them directly replicates them. They are replicated more frequently using data from other time periods and economies, so that the validity of their central ideas has...
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This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
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inheritance, there is a substantial role for environment and a much smaller role for genetics. We also examine the role played by …
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