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Steven F Lehrer

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Lukinova E, Wang Y, Lehrer S, Erlich J
Elife . 2019 Feb; 8. PMID: 30719974
Editorial Note: This article has been through an editorial process in which the authors decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review. The Reviewing Editor's assessment is...
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Lee J, Wedow R, Okbay A, Kong E, Maghzian O, Zacher M, et al.
Nat Genet . 2018 Jul; 50(8):1112-1121. PMID: 30038396
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together,...
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Okbay A, Beauchamp J, Fontana M, Lee J, Pers T, Rietveld C, et al.
Nature . 2016 May; 533(7604):539-42. PMID: 27225129
Educational attainment is strongly influenced by social and other environmental factors, but genetic factors are estimated to account for at least 20% of the variation across individuals. Here we report...
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Rosenquist J, Lehrer S, OMalley A, Zaslavsky A, Smoller J, Christakis N
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2014 Dec; 112(2):354-9. PMID: 25548176
A substantial body of research has explored the relative roles of genetic and environmental factors on phenotype expression in humans. Recent research has also sought to identify gene-environment (or g-by-e)...
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Wehby G, Fletcher J, Lehrer S, Moreno L, Murray J, Wilcox A, et al.
Biodemography Soc Biol . 2011 Aug; 57(1):3-32. PMID: 21845925
There is a large literature showing the detrimental effects of prenatal smoking on birth and childhood health outcomes. It is somewhat unclear though, whether these effects are causal or reflect...
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Fletcher J, Lehrer S
J Health Econ . 2011 Jun; 30(4):647-59. PMID: 21664708
Drawing on findings from the biomedical literature, this paper introduces the idea that specific exogenously inherited differences in the genetic code between full biological siblings can be used to test...
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Ding W, Lehrer S, Rosenquist J, Audrain-McGovern J
J Health Econ . 2009 Feb; 28(3):578-97. PMID: 19217678
This paper examines the influence of health conditions on academic performance during adolescence. To account for the endogeneity of health outcomes and their interactions with risky behaviors we exploit natural...
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Lehrer S, Pereira N
J Health Econ . 2007 Mar; 26(5):1034-56. PMID: 17374410
This article introduces an empirical strategy to the compensating differentials literature that (i) allows both individual observed and unobserved characteristics to be rewarded differently in firms based on health insurance...