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Origins of adulthood personality : the role of adverse childhood experiences

Fletcher, Jason; Schurer, Stefanie - 2017

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health - are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from a large, representative cohort of young US Americans and exploit differences across siblings to...

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Intergenerational health mobility : magnitudes and importance of schools and place

Fletcher, Jason; Jajtner, Katie M. - 2019

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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...

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Environmental bottlenecks on children's genetic potential for adult socioeconomic attainments : evidence from a health shock

Fletcher, Jason - 2018

This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in … children to leverage their genetic gifts to achieve high levels of educational attainments. The multigenerational information …/1919 influenza pandemic as a source of quasi-experimental variation to family environments (but not affecting children's genetic …

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