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Maternal age at first birth and offspring criminality: Using the children of twins design to test causal hypotheses

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Causal Inference and Generalization in Field Settings

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Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and the Risk of Psychiatric Morbidity in Singleton Sibling Pairs

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Number of children and later-life mortality among Finns born 1938–50

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An Examination of the Sibling Training Hypothesis for Disruptive Behavior in Early Childhood

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Causal nature of neighborhood deprivation on individual risk of coronary heart disease or ischemic stroke: A prospective national Swedish co-relative control study in men and women

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Adolescent Gang Membership and Adverse Behavioral, Mental Health, and Physical Health Outcomes in Young Adulthood: A Within-Family Analysis

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Clarifying the Associations between Age at Menarche and Adolescent Emotional and Behavioral Problems

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Invited Commentary: Does the Childhood Environment Influence the Association Between Every X and Every Y in Adulthood?

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Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Smoking and Childhood Behavioural Problems: A Quasi-experimental Approach

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Sibling Analysis of Adolescent Intelligence and Chronic Diseases in Older Adulthood

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Testing Putative Causal Associations of Risk Factors for Early Intercourse in the Study of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (STAGE)

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Sex Differences in the Relationship between Harsh Discipline and Conduct Problems

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Potential Causal Influence of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Disordered Gambling: Evidence From a Multilevel Discordant Twin Design

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Sibling Models Can Test Causal Claims without Experiments: Applications for PsychologyPreprint

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A caution on sibling comparisons in studying effects of the rearing environment

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Testing hypotheses on specific environmental causal effects on behavior.

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Is self-regulation “All in the family”? Testing environmental effects using within-family quasi-experiments

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