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Book Reviews - Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
In: Intelligence and national security, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 212
ISSN: 0268-4527
Testosterone and the Biology of Politics
In: Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, S. 261-272
Long-Run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-Being
In: NBER Working Paper No. w24667
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Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data
In: American political science review, Band 108, Heft 1, S. 71-87
ISSN: 1537-5943
This article analyzes a rich Swedish data set with information on the electoral turnout of a large sample of adoptees, their siblings, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. We use a simple regression framework to decompose the parent-child resemblance in voting into pre-birth factors, measured by biological parents' voting, and post-birth factors, measured by adoptive parents' voting. Adoptees are more likely to vote if their biological parents were voters and if they were assigned to families in which the adoptive parents vote. We find evidence of interactions between the pre- and post-birth factors: the effect of the post-birth environment on turnout is greater amongst adoptees whose biological mothers are nonvoters. We also show that the relationships between parental characteristics, such as education, and child turnout, persist even in the absence of a genetic link between parent and child. The regression-based framework we utilize provides a basis for the integration of behavior-genetic research into mainstream political science.
Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting : Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data
This article analyzes a rich Swedish data set with information on the electoral turnout of a largesample of adoptees, their siblings, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. We use asimple regression framework to decompose the parent-child resemblance in voting into pre-birthfactors, measured by biological parents' voting, and post-birth factors, measured by adoptive parents'voting. Adoptees are more likely to vote if their biological parents were voters and if they were assignedto families in which the adoptive parents vote. We find evidence of interactions between the pre- andpost-birth factors: the effect of the post-birth environment on turnout is greater amongst adoptees whosebiological mothers are nonvoters. We also show that the relationships between parental characteristics,such as education, and child turnout, persist even in the absence of a genetic link between parent andchild. The regression-based framework we utilize provides a basis for the integration of behavior-geneticresearch into mainstream political science. ; Nature, nurture and political attitudes and behavior
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Pre-Birth Factors, Post-Birth Factors, and Voting: Evidence from Swedish Adoption Data
In: American political science review, Band 108, Heft 1, S. 71-87
ISSN: 0003-0554
The psychometric and empirical properties of measures of risk preferences
In: Journal of risk and uncertainty, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 203-237
ISSN: 1573-0476
Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children
In: NBER Working Paper No. w31962
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The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries
In: NBER Working Paper No. w21762
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Windfall Gains and Stock Market Participation
In: NBER Working Paper No. w21673
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The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries
In: American economic review, Band 107, Heft 12, S. 3917-3946
ISSN: 1944-7981
We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary prizes in a large sample of Swedish lottery players. Winning a lottery prize modestly reduces earnings, with the reduction being immediate, persistent, and quite similar by age, education, and sex. A calibrated dynamic model implies lifetime marginal propensities to earn out of unearned income from −0.17 at age 20 to −0.04 at age 60, and labor supply elasticities in the lower range of previously reported estimates. The earnings response is stronger for winners than their spouses, which is inconsistent with unitary household labor supply models. (JEL D14, J22, J31)
Financial Windfalls, Portfolio Allocations, and Risk Preferences
In: NBER Working Paper No. w31864
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On the sources of the height–intelligence correlation: New insights from a bivariate ACE model with assortative mating
A robust positive correlation between height and intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, has been established in the literature. This paper makes several contributions toward establishing the causes of this association. First, we extend the standard bivariate ACE model to account for assortative mating. The more general theoretical framework provides several key insights, including formulas to decompose a cross-trait genetic correlation into components attributable to assortative mating and pleiotropy and to decompose a cross-trait within-family correlation. Second, we use a large dataset of male twins drawn from Swedish conscription records and examine how well genetic and environmental factors explain the association between (i) height and intelligence and (ii) height and military aptitude, a professional psychogologist's assessment of a conscript's ability to deal with wartime stress. For both traits, we find suggestive evidence of a shared genetic architecture with height, but we demonstrate that point estimates are very sensitive to assumed degrees of assortative mating. Third, we report a significant within-family correlation between height and intelligence \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$(\hat{\rho}=0.10),$$\end{document} suggesting that pleiotropy might be at play.
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