Research

Revise and Resubmit:

The Economics and Econometrics of Gene–Environment Interplay (with Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans Van Kippersluis, and Niels Rietveld) Revise and Resubmit at The Review of Economic Studies HCEO Working Paper 2022-005

Testing for treatment effect heterogeneity: Educational reform, genetic endowments, and family background (with Rafael Ahlskog, Jonathan Beauchamp, Aysu Okbay, and Sven Oskarsson). March, 2024. LINK
Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information (with Yeogmi Jeong, Nicholas Papageorge and Meghan Skira). February, 2024 LINK
Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling (with Titus J. Galama and Andrei Munteanu). August, 2023 LINK

Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle (with Daniel Barth, Nicholas Papageorge, and Mateo Velasquez-Giraldo) August, 2022 LINK

Challenges in studying the interplay of genes and environment: A study of childhood financial distress moderating genetic predisposition for peak smoking (with Laura Bierut, Pietro Biroli, and Titus J. Galama) The Journal of Economic Psychology. October, 2023. LINK
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (with Nicholas Papageorge)

The Journal of the European Economic Association. June 2020, Vol 18, No 3. LINK NBER Working Paper 25114

Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality (with Daniel Barth and Nicholas Papageorge).

The Journal of Political Economy. April 2020, Vol 128, No 4. LINK NBER Working Paper 24642 , IZA Discussion Paper No. 10567

Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals (Lee J., et al.)

Nature Genetics. 2018 Link

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. (Okbay A., et al.)

Nature. 2016 Link

From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector (with Oeindrila Dube and Omar Garcia-Ponce)

The Journal of the European Economic Association. Oct. 2016 LINK

Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market (with Steffen Reinhold)

The Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2013, Vol. 48. PDF

Smoking, Genes, and Health: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (with Daniel Benjamin, Andrew Caplin, David Cesarini, and Patrick Turley)

Repeated Circular Migration: Theory and Evidence from Undocumented Migrants. Updated August 2010. PDF