Publications

Journal publications

Cheesman, R., Anapaz, V., van Alten, S., Abdellaoui, A. … Fauske, A. (In press). Genetic associations with educational fields in >460,000 individuals. Nature Genetics.

B. Arold, P. Hufe, and M. Stöckli (In press). Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Moderating Influence of School Investments. Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.

Biroli, P., T. Galama, S. von Hinke, H. van Kippersluis, C. Rietveld, K. Thom. (In press). Using genetic data in economics: The interplay between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’. Review of Economic Studies.

Muslimova, D., H. van Kippersluis, C. Rietveld, S. von Hinke, F. Meddens. (In press). Complementarity in skill production: Evidence from genetic endowments and birth order. Journal of Labor Economics.

Eftedahl, NH., Eilertsen, EM., Sunde, HS., Kleppestø, TH., Ystrøm, E., Czajkowski, NO. (2025). Beyond additive genetic effects: Explaining family resemblance in school performance across millions of pairs of Norwegian relatives. PNAS, 122(25).

van den Berg, G., S. von Hinke, A. Wang. (2025). Prenatal sugar exposure shapes late-life human capital and health. PNAS Nexus.

R. C. Cheesman, Nicolai T. Borgen, Astrid M.J. Sandsor, and P. Hufe (2025). The genetic lottery goes to school: better schools compensate for the effects of student’s genetic differences. PNAS 122(43).

Straub, V. J., & Burton, J. W. (2025). Participatory approaches should be used to address the ethics of social media experiments. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 28.

Biroli, B., Galama, T.J., von Hinke, S., van Kippersluis, H., Rietveld, C.A., and Thom, K. (2025). The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay. Review of Economic Studies, rdaf034.

Van de Kraats, C., Galama, T.J., Lindeboom, M., Deng, Z. (2025). Why life gets better after age 50, for some: mental well-being and the social norm of work. Journal of Labor Economics.

Abdel Abdellaoui, Hilary C. Martin, Martin Kolk, Adam Rutherford, Michael Muthukrishna, Felix C. Tropf, Melinda C. Mills, Brendan P. Zietsch, Karin J. H. Verweij & Peter M. Visscher. (2025). Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences. Nature Human Behaviour 9, 864–876.

Ahlskog, R., Dawes, C., Oskarsson, S. and Weinschenk, A. (2025). The genetics of political participation: Leveraging polygenic indices to advance political behavior research. Political Behavior.

Ahlskog, R. (2025). Class, genes and rationality: a gene-environment interaction approach to ideology. Political Psychology.

Brännlund, A. and Ahlskog, R. (2025). From Globalization to Isolation: Exposure to the 2008 Financial Crisis and Three Dimensions of Liberal Attitudes in a Swedish Twin Design. Government and Opposition.

Van Alten, S., Domingue, B., Faul, J., Galama, T. and Marees, A. (2024). Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS uncovers novel genetic variants and increases heritability estimates. Nature Communications.

Hughes, AM., Torvik, FA., van Bergen, E., … Davies, NM. (2024). Parental education and children’s depression, anxiety, and ADHD traits, a within-family study in MoBa. npj Science of Learning, 9(46).

Straub, V. J., Burton, J. W., Geers, M., & Lorenz-Spreen, P. (2024). Public attitudes towards social media field experiments. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26110.

Straub, Vincent. (2024). Stop digital platforms treating people as lab rats. Nature 636, no. 8042.

Straub, V.J. & Mills, M.C. (2024). The interplay between male fertility, mental health and sexual function. Nature Reviews Urology, 22(1), 1-2.

Ahlskog, R. (2024). It matters what and where we measure: Education and ideology in a Swedish twin design. Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Buser, T., Ahlskog, R., Johannesson, M., Koellinger, P. and Oskarsson, S. (2024). The causal effect of genetic variants linked to cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes. Labour Economics.

Baker, S., P. Biroli, H. van Kippersluis, S. von Hinke (2024). Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for ischeamic heart disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 121(27), e2314056121

von Hinke, S. and N. Vitt (2024). An analysis of the accuracy of retrospective birth location recall using sibling data. Nature Communications, 15(2665) doi: 10.1073/pnas.2314056121

Davies, N.M., G. Hemani, J.M. Neiderhiser, H.C. Martin, M.C. Mills, P.M. Visscher, L.Yengo, A. Young & M.C. Keller (2024). The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks, Nature: 634: 795-803

Benonisdottir, S., V.J. Straub, A. Kong and M.C.Mills (2024). Genetics of female and male reproductive traits and their relationship with health, longevity and consequences for offspring, Nature Aging, 1745-1759

Akimova, E.T., T. Wolfram, X.Ding, F.T. Tropf and M.C.Mills. (2024). Polygenic prediction of occupational status GWAS elucidates genetic and environmental interplay in intergenerational transmission, careers and health in UK Biobank. Nature Human Behaviour. FAQ: https://www.demography.ox.ac.uk/faqs-nature-human-behaviour-occupational-status-study

Sjoerd van Alten, Benjamin W Domingue, Jessica Faul, Titus Galama, Andries T Marees (2024). “Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering.” International Journal of Epidemiology 53(3)

Stephanie von Hinke & Nicolai Vitt (2024). “An analysis of the accuracy of retrospective birth location recall using sibling data.” Nature Communications 15

Ahlskog, R. (2023). Extraversion probably does not cause political participation. Evidence from two genetically informed designs. Political Psychology.

Ahlskog, R. and Oskarsson, S. (2023). Quantifying Bias from Measurable and Unmeasurable Confounders Across Three Domains of Individual Determinants of Political Preferences. Political Analysis.

Bierut, L., Biroli, P, Galama, T.J. and Thom, K. (2023). Challenges in studying the interplay of genes and environment. A study of childhood financial distress moderating genetic predisposition for peak smoking. Journal of Economic Psychology, 98, 102636.

van Kippersluis, H., P. Biroli, R. Dias Pereira, T.J. Galama, S. von Hinke, S.F.W. Meddens, D. Muslimova, E.A.W. Slob, R. de Vlaming, C.A. Rietveld (2023). Overcoming attenuation bias in regressions using polygenic indices. Nature Communications, 14, 4473, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40069-4

Raffington, L., Tanksley, PT., Vinnik, L., Sabhlok, A. … Harden, KP. (2023). Associations of DNA-Methylation Measures of Biological Aging With Social Disparities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Clinical Psychological Science 12(4).

Other publications

von Hinke, S., J. James, E. Sorensen, H.H. Sievertsen, N. Vitt. (2024). The prevalence, trends and heterogeneity in maternal smoking around birth between the 1930s and 1970s. In: Recent Developments in Health Econometrics (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol.297), Badi Baltagi and Francesco Moscone (Ed.), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-227.

Work in progress

van den Berg, G., S. von Hinke, N. Vitt. Early-life exposure to measles and later-life outcomes: Evidence from the introduction of a vaccine.

Menta, G., Biroli, P., Mehta, D., D’Ambrosio, C., & Cobb-Clark, D. Aggregating epigenetic clocks to study human capital formation.

Fukushima, N., S. von Hinke, E. Sorensen. 2024. The long-term human capital and health impacts of a pollution reduction programme.

Hou, R., S. Baker, S. von Hinke, H.H. Sievertsen, E. Sorensen, and N. Vitt. 2025. Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions.

LIA Alajääskö, MA Palma, A Abdellaoui, TJ Galama. Genetics of educational attainment and social problem behaviors: Robust estimates of direct genetic effects. Preprint at Research Square (2025).

van Alten, S., Barcellos, S.H., Carvalho, L., Galama, T.J., and Palma, Marina Aguiar. A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status, NBER Working Paper 34208.

Galama, T.J., Munteanu, A, and Thom, K. Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling in the U.S., HCEO working paper 2024-003.

Galama, T.J. and Van Kippersluis, H. Human-Capital Formation: The Importance of Endogenous Longevity, CESR WP.

Aguiar Palma, van Alten, S., Galama, T.J., Lindeboom, M. and Roman, S. Life’s two lotteries: modeling the effects of genes and environments in human capital formation, in progress.

Aranda, R., Galama, T. and Thom, K. A League of Their Own: The Effect of Female Youth Sports Participation on Health Behaviors and Outcomes from Adolescence to Retirement Age, in progress.

Biroli, B., Galama, T.J. et al. Sources of Inequality at Birth: the Interplay Between Genes and Parental Socioeconomic Status, in progress.

Biroli, B., Galama, T.J. et al. Is genetic advantage concentrated among higher socioeconomic status families?, in progress.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 programme under grant agreement number 101073237