Research – Key Publications
The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay (in press, with Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Kevin Thom) Review of Economic Studies (link to paper; link to Q&A document)
Nature-nurture interplay in educational attainment (in press, with Dilnoza Muslimova, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Fleur Meddens). Journal of Labor Economics (arXiv version)
Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for isceamic heart disease (2024, with Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli and Hans van Kippersluis) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Information Shocks and Provider Responsiveness: Evidence from Interventional Cardiology (2024, with Daniel Avdic, Bo Lagerqvist, Carol Propper and Johan Vikström) Journal of Health Economics
An analysis of the accuracy of retrospective birth location recall using sibling data (2024, with Nicolai Vitt) Nature Communications
The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London Smog (2023, with Emil N. Sørensen) Journal of Health Economics
Overcoming Attenuation Bias in Regressions using Polygenic Indices (2023, with Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Fleur Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Pereira and Niels Rietveld), Nature Communications
Rank concordance of polygenic indices: Implications for applied research and personalized medicine (2023, with Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Fleur Meddens). Nature Human Behaviour
Maternal Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence (2022, with Nigel Rice and Emma Tominey) Labour Economics
The effects of extending alcohol retailers’ opening hours: Evidence from Sweden. European Economic Review (2021, with Daniel Avdic)
The Response to Nutritional Labels: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Health Economics (2020, with Eleonora Fichera)
Getting a healthy start? The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices. Journal of Health Economics (2018, with Rachel Griffith and Sarah Smith)
Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data. Journal of Health Economics (2017, with Gerard J. van den Berg, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Maarten Lindeboom, Johannes Lissdaniels, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist)
Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables. Journal of Health Economics (2016, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement. The Economic Journal (2014, with George Wehby, Sarah Lewis and Luisa Zuccolo)
Child Height, Health and Human Capital: Evidence using Genetic Markers. European Economic Review (2013, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
School Meal Crowd Out in the 1980s. Journal of Health Economics (2013)
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Research – Working papers
Prenatal sugar exposure and late-life human capital and health (with Gerard van den Berg and Adele Wang) Provisionally accepted, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus
Early-life exposure to measles and later-life outcomes: Evidence from the introduction of a vaccine (with Gerard van den Berg and Nicolai Vitt). R&R (2nd round), Economic Journal
The long-term human capital and health impacts of a pollution reduction programme (with Nanna Fukushima and Emil Sørensen)
Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions (with Ruijun Hou, Samuel Baker, Hans Sievertsen, Emil Sørensen and Nicolai Vitt)
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Research – All publications (in reverse chronological order)
The economics and econometrics of gene-environment interplay (in press, with Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Kevin Thom) Review of Economic Studies (arXiv version)
Nature-nurture interplay in educational attainment (in press, with Dilnoza Muslimova, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Fleur Meddens). Journal of Labor Economics (arXiv version)
The prevalence, trends and heterogeneity in maternal smoking around birth between the 1930s and 1970s (2024, with Jonathan James, Emil Sørensen, Hans H. Sievertsen, and Nicolai Vitt). Badi Baltagi and Francesco Moscone (Ed.) Recent Developments in Health Econometrics (Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol.297), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 201-227.
Evaluating the impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy on the ultra-processed food content of children’s lunches in England and Scotland: A natural experiment (2024, with Jennie Parnham, Kiara Chang, Fernanda Rauber, Renata Levy, Anthony Laverty, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Martin White, Christopher Millet and Eszter Vamos) International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for isceamic heart disease (2024, with Samuel Baker, Pietro Biroli and Hans van Kippersluis) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Information Shocks and Provider Responsiveness: Evidence from Interventional Cardiology (2024, with Daniel Avdic, Bo Lagerqvist, Carol Propper and Johan Vikström) Journal of Health Economics
An analysis of the accuracy of retrospective birth location recall using sibling data (2024, with Nicolai Vitt) Nature Communications
The long-term effects of early-life pollution exposure: Evidence from the London Smog (2023, with Emil N. Sørensen) Journal of Health Economics
Overcoming Attenuation Bias in Regressions using Polygenic Indices (2023, with Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Fleur Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Pereira and Niels Rietveld), Nature Communications
Rank concordance of polygenic indices: Implications for applied research and personalized medicine (2023, with Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld and Fleur Meddens). Nature Human Behaviour
Maternal Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence (2022, with Nigel Rice and Emma Tominey) Labour Economics
The ultra-processed food content of school meals and packed lunches in the United Kingdom. Nutrients (2022, with Jennie Parnham, Kiara Chang, Fernanda Rauber, Renata Levy, Christopher Millet, Anthony Laverty and Eszter Vamos)
Gene-by-Environment Interplay in the Social Sciences. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2022, with Rita Dias Pereira, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld, and Kevin Thom)
Dietary quality of school meals and packed lunches: A national study of primary and secondary school children in the UK. Public Health Nutrition (2022, with Erin Haney, Jennie Parnham, Kiara Chang, Anthony Laverty, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Martin White, Christopher Millet and Eszter Vamos)
The impact of the Universal Infant Free School Meal policy on dietary quality in English and Scottish primary school children: Evaluation of a natural experiment. Nutrients (2022, with Jennie Parnham, Kiara Chang, Christopher Millet, Anthony Laverty, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Frank de Vocht, Martin White and Eszter Vamos)
Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy. British Education Research Journal (2022, with Tim Morris, Lindsey Pike, Neil Ingram, George Davey Smith, Marcus Munafò and Neil Davies)
Education, Dietary Intakes and Exercise. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2022)
The effects of extending alcohol retailers’ opening hours: Evidence from Sweden. European Economic Review (2021, with Daniel Avdic)
Is the Healthy Start scheme associated with increased food expenditure in low-income families with young children in the United Kingdom? BMC Public Health (2021, with Jennie Parnham, Christopher Millett, Kiara Chang, Anthony Laverty, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard and Eszter Vamos)
Automatic classification of takeaway food outlet cuisine type using machine (deep) learning. Machine Learning with Applications (2021, with Tom Bishop, Bruce Hollingsworth, Amelia Lake, Heather Brown, Tom Burgoine)
The Response to Nutritional Labels: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Health Economics (2020, with Eleonora Fichera)
The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority. Health and Place (2021, with Heather Brown, Scott Kirkman, Viviana Albani, Louis Goffe, Nasima Akhter, Bruce Hollingsworth and Amelia Lake)
Field validity and spatial accuracy of the Food Standards Agency Food Hygiene Rating Scheme data for England. Journal of Public Health (2020, with Scott Kirkman, Bruce Hollingsworth, Amelia Lake, Stewart Sorrell, Thomas Burgoine, Heather Brown)
Evidence of detrimental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on offspring birthweight and neurodevelopment from a systematic review of quasi-experimental studies. International Journal of Epidemiology (2020, with Loubaba Mamluk, Timothy Jones, Sharea Ijaz, Hannah Edwards, Jelena Savovic, Verity Leach, Theresa Moore, Sarah Lewis, Jenny Donovan, Debbie Lawlor, George Davey Smith, Abigail Fraser and Luisa Zuccolo)
The Use of Instrumental Variables in Peer Effects Models. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2019, with George Leckie and Cheti Nicoletti)
Getting a healthy start? The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices. Journal of Health Economics (2018, with Rachel Griffith and Sarah Smith)
Mortality and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Individual and Aggregated Data. Journal of Health Economics (2017, with Gerard J. van den Berg, Ulf-G Gerdtham, Maarten Lindeboom, Johannes Lissdaniels, Jan Sundquist and Kristina Sundquist)
Protecting Energy Intakes against Income Shocks. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2017, with George Leckie)
Estimating marginal medical care expenditures using genetic variants as instrumental variables: Mendelian Randomization in economic evaluation. Pharmacoeconomics (2016, with Padraig Dixon, George Davey Smith, Neil Davies and William Hollingworth)
Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables. Journal of Health Economics (2016, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control: A theoretical and empirical investigation. Health Economics (2016, with John Cawley and Davide Dragone)
The Many Weak Instrument Problem and Mendelian Randomization. Statistics in Medicine (2015, with Neil Davies, Helmut Farbmacher, Steven Burgess, Frank Windmeijer and George Davey Smith)
Cohort Data in Health Economics. In: Badi H. Baltagi (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Panel Data Econometrics (2015, with Andrew Jones)
The London Bombings and Racial Prejudice: Evidence from Housing and Labour Markets. Economic Inquiry (2015, with Anita Ratcliffe)
Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement. The Economic Journal (2014, with George Wehby, Sarah Lewis and Luisa Zuccolo)
Child Height, Health and Human Capital: Evidence using Genetic Markers. European Economic Review (2013, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
School Meal Crowd Out in the 1980s. Journal of Health Economics (2013)
Genetic Instrumental Variables Studies of Effects of Prenatal Risk Factors. Biodemography and Social Biology (2013, with George Wehby)
The Effect of Fat Mass on Educational Attainment: Examining the Sensitivity of Different Identification Strategies. Economics and Human Biology (2012, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
Mendelian Randomization: The use of Genes in Instrumental Variable Analyses. Health Economics (2011, with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)
Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: The Impact of Incentives on Team Performance? The Economic Journal (2010, with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto and Emma Tominey)
Maternal Employment and Overweight Children: Does Timing Matter? Health Economics (2008)
Geen Sociaal Economische Ongelijkheid in het Wachten op Zorg? Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidswetenschappen (2003, with Eddy van Doorslaer, Jose Geurts and Frans Frenken)
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