Publications

What Can We Learn About the Effect of Mental Health on Labor Market Outcomes Under Weak Assumptions? Evidence from the NLSY79. (with Giuseppe Germinario, Carlos A. Flores, and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes). 2022. Labour Economics.

What is driving the relationship between height and cognition? Evidence from the Twins Early Development Study. (with Jason Fletcher). 2022. Economics & Human Biology

Higher educational attainment is associated with longer telomeres in midlife: Evidence from sibling comparisons in the UK Biobank. (with Jason Fletcher, Zhongxuan Sun and Qiongshi Lu). 2022. Social Science & Medicine-Population Health.

Genetic Risks, Adolescent Health and Schooling Attainment (with Jere Behrman, Jason M Fletcher, Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes & Hans Peter-Kohler). 2021. Health Economics,

The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers (with Alfonso Flores-Lagunes & Carlos Flores). 2020. Economics & Human Biology.

Does education reduce the genetic risk of obesity? Evidence from U.K. Twins (with Paul Dunn & Tim Spector). 2018. Economics & Human Biology

Gene-environment interactions between education and body mass: Evidence from the UK and Finland (with Petri Bockerman, Jutta Vinnnikainen, Melissa Smart, Yanchun Bao, Meena Kumari, Niina Pitkanen, Terho Lehtimaki, Olli Raitakari & Jaakko Pehkonen). 2017.Social Science & Medicine.

Decomposing Racial Differences in Adolescent Smoking in the U.S. (with Aparna Lhila). 2016. Economics & Human Biology

The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment. (with Carlos A. Flores, Alfonso-Flores Lagunes & Daniel J. Parisian). 2016. Economics of Education Review.

The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers? (with Petter Lundborg & Dan-Olf Rooth). 2015. Economics of Education Review.

Causal inferences: Identical twins help and clarity about necessary assumptions is critical. (with Jere R. Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, Yanyan Xiong & Junsen Zhang). 2015. Social Science & Medicine.

Schooling has smaller or insignificant effects on adult health in the US than suggested by cross-sectional associations: New estimates using relatively large samples of identical twins. (with Jere R. Behrman & Hans-Peter Kohler). 2015. Social Science & Medicine.

Do more-schooled women have fewer children and delay childbearing? Evidence from a sample of US twins (with Jere R. Behrman). 2014. Journal of Population Economics. Lead Article.

Does more schooling improve health outcomes and health related behaviors? Evidence from U.K. Twins (with Jere R. Behrman & Tim D. Spector). 2013. Economics of Education Review.

Returns to Education: Evidence from U.K Twins Comment. 2011. American Economic Review.

Sibling Sex Composition and Education Outcomes: A Review of Theory and Evidence for the UK. 2009. Labour: Review of Economics and Industrial Relations.