Working Papers

Markel G, Beauchamp JP, Ahlskog R, Ebeltoft JC, Möttus R, Oskarsson S, Vainik U, Ystrom E. “Nature, nurture, and socioeconomic outcomes: New evidence from sib pairs and molecular genetic data.” Conditionally accepted at AER: Insights.
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Azevedo E, Beauchamp JP, Karlsson-Linnér R. “Genetic prediction and adverse selection.” Revise & Resubmit at Econometrica.
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Bahrami-Rad D, Beauchamp JP, Henrich J, Schulz J. “Kin-based institutions and economic development.” Revise & Resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies.
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Genetics Appendix

Beauchamp JP, Schmitz L, McGue M, Lee J. “Nature-Nurture Interplay: Evidence from Molecular Genetic and Pedigree Data in Korean-American Adoptees.” Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy Micro.
Available at OSF

Ahlskog R, Beauchamp JP, Okbay A, Oskarsson S, Thom k. “Testing for treatment effect heterogeneity: Educational reform, genetic endowments, and family background.” Revise & Resubmit at Nature Communications.
Available at SSRN
Pre-registered Analysis Plan

Publications

2025

With many coauthors. “Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socioeconomic health gradient.” Nature Human Behaviour.
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2022

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (co-starred senior author). (2022). “Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals”. Nature Genetics.
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2021

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium. (2021). “Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository”. Nature Human Behaviour.
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2019

Beauchamp JP, Benjamin DJ, Laibson D, Chabris CF. (2019). “Measuring and controlling for the compromise effect when estimating risk preference parameters.” Experimental Economics.
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Code and data (see “Supplementary material 2”)

Schulz J, Bahrami-Rad D, Beauchamp JP, Henrich J. (2019). “The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation.” Science, 366 (6466).
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Selected Media: Washington Post, Washington Post Opinion, Newsweek, The Economist, New York Times, Telegraph, NPR, Scientific American, Science Magazine, Science Podcast, FAZ I, FAZ II, NZZ, Focus, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (co-starred senior author). (2019). “Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences.” Nature Genetics, 51: 245-257.
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2018

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium. (2018). “Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.” Nature Genetics, 50: 1112-1121.
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2017

Beauchamp JP, Cesarini D, Johannesson M. (2017). “The psychometric and empirical properties of measures of risk preferences.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 54 (3): 203-237.
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2016

Beauchamp JP. (2016). “Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary united states.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (28): 7774–7779.
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Stata .do and log files for main analyses

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (co-starred leading author). (2016). “Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment.” Nature, 533: 539–542.
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With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (co-starred senior author). (2016). “Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses.” Nature Genetics, 48: 624–633.
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2013

With the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium. (2013). “GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment.” Science, 340 (6139): 1467-71.
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Chabris CF, Lee JJ, Benjamin D, Beauchamp JP, Glaeser EL, Borst G, Pinker S, Laibson DI. (2013). “Why is it hard to find genes that are associated with social science traits? theoretical and empirical considerations.” American Journal of Public Health, 103 (S1): S152-S166.
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2012

Chabris CF, Hebert BM, Benjamin DJ, Beauchamp JP, et al. (2012). “Most reported genetic associations with general intelligence are probably false positives.” Psychological Sciences, 23: 1314-23.
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Benjamin DJ, Cesarini D, .., .., Beauchamp JP, et al. (2012). “The promises and pitfalls of genoeconomics.” Annual Review of Economics, 4: 627-62.
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2011

Beauchamp JP, Cesarini D, Johannesson M, van der Loos M, et al. (2011). “Molecular genetics and economics.” Journal of Economics Perspectives, 25: 57-82.
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2010

Apicella CL, Cesarini D, .., Beauchamp JP, Westberg L. (2010). “No association between oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene polymorphisms and experimentally elicited social preferences.” PLoS ONE, 5 (6): e11153.
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Beauchamp JP, Cesarini D, Johannesson M, Lindqvist E, Apicella C. (2010). “On the sources of the height-intelligence correlation: new insights from a bivariate ACE model with assortative mating.” Behavior Genetics, 41: 242-252.
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