Persistent Inequalities: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Voter Turnout (with Sven Oskarsson, Karl-Oskar Lindgren and Rafael Ahlskog), Journal of Politics, 84 (3): 1337-1352 (July 2022)
Birth Order and Voter Turnout (with Sven Oskarsson, Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Richard Ohrvall, Andreas Kotsadam, Bernt Bratsberg, and Oddbjorn Raaum), British Journal of Political Science, 52(1): 475-82 (January 2022)
A Polygenic Score for Educational Attainment Partially Predicts Voter Turnout (with Aysu Okbay, Sven Oskarsson, and Aldo Rustichini), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (50): e2022715118 (December 2021)
Big Brother Sees You, But Does He Rule You? The Relationship Between Birth Order and Political Candidacy (with Sven Oskarsson, Karl-Oskar Lindgren and Richard Ohrvall), Journal of Politics, 83 (3): 1158-1162 (July 2021)
It Runs in the Family? A Study of Political Candidacy among Swedish Adoptees (with Sven Oskarsson and Karl-Oskar Lindgren), Political Behavior, 40 (883): 883-908 (December 2018)
Negative Affectivity, Political Contention, and Turnout: A Genopolitics Field Experiment (with Jaime Settle, Peter J. Loewen and Costas Panagopoulos), Political Psychology, 38 (6): 1065-1082 (December 2017)
Do Parents’ Life Experiences Affect the Political and Civic Participation of their Children? The Case of Draft-Induced Military Service (with Tim Johnson), Political Behavior, 38 (4): 793-816 (December 2016)
The Relationship Between Genes, Psychological Traits, and Political Participation (with David Cesarini, Sven Oskarsson, James H. Fowler, Magnus Johannesson, and Patrik K,.E. Magnusson), American Journal of Political Science, 58 (4): 888-903 (October 2014)
Genetic Variation in Political Participation (with James H. Fowler and Laura Baker), American Political Science Review, 102 (2):233-248 (May 2008)
Parental Transmission and the Importance of the (Noncausal) Effects of Education on Political Engagement: Missing the Forest for the Trees (with Aaron Weinschenk, Stig Hebbelstrup Rye Rasmussen, and Robert Klemmensen), Social Psychological and Personality Science, 14 (7): 854-864 (September 2023)
Civic Education in High School and Voter Turnout in Adulthood (with Aaron C. Weinschenk), British Journal of Political Science, 52(2), 934-948 (April 2022)
The Type of Student You Were in High School Predicts Voter Turnout in Adulthood (with Aaron C. Weinschenk), Social Science Quarterly, 101 (1): 269-284 (January 2020)
Can Political Inequalities be Educated Away? Evidence from a Large-scale Reform (with Sven Oskarsson and Karl-Oskar Lindgren), American Journal of Political Science, 61 (1): 222-236 (January 2017)
Estimating the Impact of Education on Political Participation: Evidence from Monozygotic Twins in the United States, Denmark and Sweden (with Peter Thisted Dinesen, Magnus Johannesson, Robert Klemmensen, Patrik K.E. Magnusson, Asbjorn Sonne Norgaard, Inge Petersen, and Sven Oskarsson), Political Behavior, 38 (3): 579-601 (September 2016)
Is ‘Constitutional Veneration’ an Obstacle to Constitutional Amendment? (with James R. Zink), Journal of Experimental Political Science, 9 (2): 395-406 (Winter 2022)
The Dead Hand of the Past? Toward an Understanding of 'Constitutional Veneration' (with James R. Zink), Political Behavior, 38 (3): 535-560 (September 2016)
Political Inequality, Centralized Sanctioning Institutions, and the Maintenance of Public Goods (with Han Il Chang and Tim Johnson), Bulletin of Economic Research, 70 (3): 251-268 (July 2018)
The Neural Basis of Egalitarian Behavior (with Peter J. Loewen, Darren Schreiber, Alan N. Simmons, Taru Flagand, Richard McElreath, Scott E. Bokemper, James H. Fowler, and Martin P. Paulus), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,109 (17): 6479-6483 (24 April 2012)
The Behavioral Logic of Collective Action: Partisans Cooperate and Punish More Than Non-Partisans (with James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov), Political Psychology, 31 (4): 595-616 (August 2010)
The Role of Egalitarian Motives in Altruistic Punishment (with James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov), Economics Letters, 102 (3): 192-194 (March 2009)
Egalitarian Motives in Humans (with James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, and Oleg Smirnov), Nature, 446: 794-796, doi:10.1038/nature05651 (12 April 2007)
Behavioural Anomalies Explain Variation in Voter Turnout (with Peter Loewen and Gabriel Arsenault) Duty and Choice: The Evolution of the Study of Voting and Voters, University of Toronto Press (2019)
Genes, Games, and Political Participation (with James Fowler, Peter Loewen, and Jaime Settle), Man is by Nature a Political Animal, University of Chicago Press (2011)