Preprints

Markel, G., Beauchamp, K., Ahlskog, R. … Ystrom, E. Nature, Nurture and Socioeconomic Outcomes: New evidence from sib pairs and molecular genetic data. SSRN.

Ahlskog, R., Beauchamp, J., Okbay, A., Oskarsson, S., Thom, K. Testing for treatment effect heterogeneity: Educational reform, genetic endowments, and family background. SSRN.

Buser, T., Ahlskog, R., Johannesson, M. and Oskarsson, S. Occupational sorting on genes. Tinbergen Discussion Papers 22-062/I.

 

Published work

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). Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden. Electoral Studies.

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.

Assary, E., Coleman, JRI., … Keers, R. (2025). Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes. Nature Human Behavior.

Kweon, H., Burik, CAP., … Koellinger, PD. (2025). Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socio-economic health gradient. Nature Human Behavior.

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.

Nyman, P., Ahlskog, R. and Aggeborn, L. (2023). Filling in the blanks. How does information about the Swedish EITC affect labour supply? Labour Economics.

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.

Oskarsson, S., Ahlskog, R., Dawes, CT. & Lindgren, KO. (2022). Persistent Inequalities: The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Voter Turnout. Journal of Politics.

Ahlskog, R. & Brännlund, A. (2022). Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs. Political Behavior.

Howe, L. J., Nivard, M. G., … Davies, N. M. (2022). Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects. Nature Genetics.

Okbay, A., Wu, Y., … Young, A. I. (2022) Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals. Nature Genetics.

Ahlskog, R. (2021). Education and voter turnout revisited: Evidence from a Swedish twin sample with validated turnout data. Electoral Studies.

Becker, J., C. A. P. Burik, … A. Okbay (2021). Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository. Nature Human Behavior.

Nyman, P. & Ahlskog, R. (2018). Fiscal effects of intra-EEA migration. Report to the EU Commission, Horizon 2020.

Ahlskog, R. (2017). Moral enhancement should target self-interest and cognitive capacity. Neuroethics 10(3).

Lindbom, A. & Ahlskog R. (2017). Policy-feedback från höjningen i A-kassan. In “Larmar och gör sig till” (eds. Andersson, U., Ohlsson, J., Ekengren Oscarsson, H. et al), SOM institute.

Ahlskog, R. 2017. Essays on the collective action dilemma of vaccination. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 134. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9785-9.