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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - 2015

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction....

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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

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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Understanding Sibling Correlations in Education: Molecular Genetics and Family Background

Fletcher, Jason M.; Lu, Qiongshi; Mazumder, Bhashkar; … - 2023

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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Estimating Intergenerational Health Transmission in Taiwan with Administrative Health Records

Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lin, Ming-Jen; … - 2023

We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent health by applying principal components analysis to a set of indicators for 13 broad ICD categories...

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The Heritability of Economic Preferences

Kettlewell, Nathan; Tymula, Agnieszka; Yoo, Hong Il - 2023

marries behavioral genetics with structural econometrics. This allows us to, for the first time, quantify the heritability of …

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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - 2006

This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...

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Nonmarital and Teen Fertility

Fletcher, Jason M.; Polos, Jessica - 2017

This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in selected European countries. First, we describe some key factors, including changes in economic institutions and family planning technologies, that likely contribute to the large...

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Mental Health, Schooling Attainment and Polygenic Scores: Are There Significant Gene-Environment Associations?

Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason M.; … - 2019

It is well-established that (1) there is a large genetic component to mental health, and (2) higher schooling attainment is associated with better mental health. Given these two observations, we test the hypothesis that schooling may attenuate the genetic predisposition to poor mental health....

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The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers

Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2020

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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