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Heritability of cooperative behavior in the trust game

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D Cesarini, CT Dawes, JH Fowler… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Although laboratory experiments document cooperative behavior in humans, little is
known about the extent to which individual differences in cooperativeness result from
genetic and environmental variation. In this article, we report the results of two ...
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Genetic variation in preferences for giving and risk taking

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D Cesarini, CT Dawes… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In this paper, we use the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and
environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using
standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie evidence that these ...
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Heritability of ultimatum game responder behavior

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B Wallace, D Cesarini… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Abstract Experimental evidence suggests that many people are willing to deviate from
materially maximizing strategies to punish unfair behavior. Even though little is known about
the origins of such fairness preferences, it has been suggested that they have deep ...
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Genetic Variation in Financial Decision‐Making

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D Cesarini, M Johannesson… - The Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
CESARINI, D., JOHANNESSON, M., LICHTENSTEIN, P., SANDEWALL, Ö. and WALLACE,
B.(2010), Genetic Variation in Financial Decision-Making. The Journal of Finance, 65: 1725–
1754. doi: 10.1111/j. 1540-6261.2010. 01592. x
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Confidence interval estimation tasks and the economics of overconfidence

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D Cesarini, Ö Sandewall… - Journal of Economic Behavior …, 2006 - Elsevier
We investigate the robustness of results from confidence interval estimation tasks with
respect to a number of manipulations: frequency assessments, peer frequency assessments,
iteration, and monetary incentives. Our results suggest that a large share of the ...
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Heritability of overconfidence

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D Cesarini, P Lichtenstein… - Journal of the …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Empirical evidence suggests that people on average overestimate their own ability
in a variety of circumstances. Little is known, however, about the origins of such
overconfidence. To shed some light on this issue, we use the classic twin design to ...
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Higher cognitive ability is associated with lower entries in a< i> p</i>-beauty contest

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TC Burnham, D Cesarini, M Johannesson… - Journal of Economic …, 2009 - Elsevier
“Beauty contests” are well-studied, dominance-solvable games that generate two interesting
results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium. Second, there
is considerable unexplained heterogeneity in behavior. In this work, we explore the ...
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[PDF] Is Financial Risk) taking Behavior Genetically Transmitted

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D Cesarini, M Johannesson, P Lichtenstein… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2008 - ifn.se
Abstract In this paper, we use a sample of almost 30,000 Swedish mono) and dizygotic twins
to study the heritability of financial risk) taking. Following a major pension reform in the year
2000, virtually all Swedish adults had to simultaneously make a finnancial decision ...
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[CITATION] Family influences on productive skills, human capital and lifecycle income

D Cesarini - Unpublished manuscript, MIT, 2009
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Does parental age difference affect offspring count in humans? Comment on Fieder and Huber

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E Lindqvist, D Cesarini… - Biology Letters, 2008 - rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org
In a recent paper, Fieder & Huber (2007) attempt to estimate the 'fitness effects' of parental
age differences, to test the hypothesis that age preferences are evolutionarily acquired. The
authors use modern data from the Swedish Total Population Registry. In their ...
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Maternal longevity and the sex of offspring in pre-industrial Sweden

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D Cesarini, E Lindqvist… - Annals of human biology, 2007 - informahealthcare.com
Background: Helle et al.(2000. Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans.
Science, 296, 1085) argued that giving birth to sons reduced maternal longevity in pre-
industrial societies due to higher physiological costs of bearing sons and the elevated ...
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Molecular genetics and economics

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JP Beauchamp, D Cesarini… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: The costs of comprehensively genotyping human subjects have fallen to the point
where major funding bodies, even in the social sciences, are beginning to incorporate
genetic and biological markers into major social surveys. How, if at all, should economists ...
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On the sources of the height–intelligence correlation: New insights from a bivariate ACE model with assortative mating

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JP Beauchamp, D Cesarini, M Johannesson… - Behavior genetics, 2011 - Springer
Abstract 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 ...
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[PDF] The behavioral genetics of behavioral anomalies

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D Cesarini, M Johannesson… - Management …, 2012 - econ.sciences-po.fr
Abstract A number of recent papers have examined the environmental and genetic sources
of individ& ual differences in economic and financial decision&making. Here we contribute
to this burgeoning literature by extending it to a number of key behavioral anomalies that ...
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Experimental game theory and behavior genetics

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D Cesarini, CT Dawes… - Annals of the New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We summarize the findings from a research program studying the heritability of behavior in a
number of widely used economic games, including trust, dictator, and ultimatum games.
Results from the standard behavior genetic variance decomposition suggest that ...
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A Genome-Wide Association Study of Educational Attainment

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J Beauchamp, D Cesarini… - … manuscript (July 28, …, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Twin and adoption studies have consistently found that genetic variation is an
important source of heterogeneity in economic outcomes such as educational attainment
and income. The advent of inexpensive, genome-wide scans is now making it increasingly ...
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The co-twin methodology and returns to schooling–testing a critical assumption

Ö Sandewall, D Cesarini… - Working Paper Series, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor
economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that
within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage ...
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[CITATION] The Psychometric Properties of Measures of Economic Risk Preferences

JP Beauchamp, D Cesarini… - Unpublished paper, Harvard …, 2011
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[CITATION] Port Jews: Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres,¡ 550–¡ 950

D Cesarini - 2004 - London: Frank Cass
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Genetic influences on economic preferences

D Cesarini, CT Dawes, M Johannesson… - 2007 - econstor.eu
Abstract: In this paper, we use the classical twin design to provide estimates of genetic and
environmental influences on experimentally elicited preferences for risk and giving. Using
standard methods from behavior genetics, we find strong prima facie evidence that these ...
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[CITATION] Greeks and Jews in Salonika and Odessa: Inter-ethnic Relations in Cosmopolitan Port Cities

M Vassilikou… - Port Jews. Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan …, 2002
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[CITATION] enstein, and Björn Wallace. 2009. pGenetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk'Taking

D Cesarini, CT Dawes, M Johannesson… - qQuarterly Journal of Economics
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[CITATION] Genetic Influences on Economic Preferences. SSE

D Cesarini, CT Dawes, M Johannesson… - 2007 - EFI Working paper Series in …
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[CITATION] pEssays on Genetic Variation and Economic BehaviorqPhD Dissertation

C David - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010
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[PDF] Do Psychological Traits Mediate the Relationship Between Genes and Political Participation?

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C Dawes, D Cesarini, JH Fowler, M Johannesson… - 2010 - politics.as.nyu.edu
Abstract Recent research demonstrates that variation in a wide range of political attitudes,
beliefs, and behaviors can be explained in part by genetic variation. However, these studies
have not yet identified the mechanisms that generate such a relationship. Some scholars ...
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[PDF] ONLINE APPENDIX for Genetics and Economics

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JP Beauchamp, D Cesarini, M Johannesson… - aeaweb.org
In this Online Appendix, we provide more details on the data, methods, and results of the
Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) of educational attainment described in the main
paper. In a GWAS, tens or hundreds of thousands of genetic markers are individually ...
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[CITATION] The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation;[papers Presented at an International Conference of the Same Name, Held Jan. 18-20, 1992, London]

D Cesarini - 1994 - Routledge
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[CITATION] Genetic Variation in Financial Decision-Making (Digest Summary)

D Cesarini, M Johannesson, P Lichtenstein… - CFA Digest, 2011 - CFA Institute

[PDF] Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives

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CF Chabris, BM Hebert, DJ Benjamin… - w.leadingteams.org
Abstract General intelligence (g) and virtually all other behavioral traits are heritable.
Associations between g and specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several
candidate genes involved in brain function have been reported. We sought to replicate ...
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[PDF] Billiards and Brains: Cognitive Ability and Behavior in a p-Beauty Contest

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TC Burnham, D Cesarini, B Wallace… - Working Paper Series …, 2007 - swopec.hhs.se
Abstract VBeauty contestsV are well'studied, dominance'solvable games that generate two
interesting results. First, most behavior does not conform to the unique Nash equilibrium.
Second, there is considerable unexplained heterogeneity in behavior. In this work, we ...
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[CITATION] Essays on Genetic Variation and Economic Behavior

DA Cesarini - 2010 - Massachusetts Institute of …
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Maternal Longevity and the Sex of Offspring: Evidence from Pre-Industrial Sweden

D Cesarini, E Lindqvist… - Working Paper Series in …, 2007 - ideas.repec.org
Helle et al.(2002) used data from Finnish parish records to study the cost of bearing sons vis-
à-vis daughters in terms of postmenopausal longevity and found a large and significant cost
associated with sons. In this paper, we replicate and extend their analysis on a larger ...
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Essays on genetic variation and economic behavior

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D Laibson, D Prelec… - 2010 - dspace.mit.edu
Page 1. Essays on Genetic Variation and Economic Behavior by David Alexander
Cesarini M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science (2004) M.Sc.,
Stockholm School of Economics (2003) Submitted to the Department ...
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Like Parent, Like Child? On the Sources of Parent-Child Resemblance in Voter Turnout

S Oskarsson, D Cesarini… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use a uniquely assembled Swedish dataset with information on the political
participation of adopted children and their biological and adoptive parents to shed light on
the sources of intergenerational associations in voter turnout. Across all specifications, we ...
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[PDF] Online Appendix to Accompany Genetic Variation in PreFerences For Giving and Risk Taking

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D Cesarini, CT Dawes, M Johannesson… - swopec.hhs.se
In this online appendix, we provide some details on the Bayesian estimation procedure,
additional information on recruitment bias, and the results for our two additional measures of
risk preferences (referred to in the text as risk investment and risk assessment).
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[CITATION] The denial continues

D Cesarini - Times literary supplement, TLS, 1994 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... The denial continues. Autores: David Cesarini; Localización: Times literary supplement, TLS,
ISSN 0307-661X, Nº 4753, 1994 , pág. 12. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados.
Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario. Contraseña. Entrar. Mi Dialnet. ...
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