Research

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Publications

• Cook, C.J. (2015). The natural selection of infectious disease resistance and its effect on contemporary health.  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97, 742-757.
  • Publication / Working Paper / Replication Files
  • Media Coverage: The Growth Economics Blog.
• Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2015).  Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages.  Journal of Health Economics, 41, 107-116.
  • Publication / Working Paper / WLS Private Data
• Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2015).  Can education rescue genetic liability for cognitive decline?  Social Sciences and Medicine, 127, 159-170.
  • Publication / Working Paper / WLS Private Data
• Cook, C.J. (2014).  The role of lactase persistence in precolonial development.  Journal of Economic Growth, 19, 369-406.
  • Publication / Working Paper / Replication Files
  • Media Coverage: The Economist, PBS Newshour's Making $ense.
• Cook, C.J. (2014).  Potatoes, milk, and the Old World population boom.  Journal of Development Economics, 110, 123-138.
  • Publication / Working Paper / Replication Files
  • Media Coverage: Splash! Milk Science.
• Chanda, A., Cook, C.J., & Putterman, L. (2014).  Persistence of fortune: Accounting for population movements, there was no post-Columbian reversal.  AEJ: Macro, 6, 1-28 (lead article).
  • Publication / Working Paper / Replication Files
  • Discussion by Jared Diamond.
• Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2014).  Interactive effects of in utero nutrition and genetic inheritance on cognition: New evidence using sibling comparisons.  Economics and Human Biology, 13, 144-154.
  • Publication / Working Paper / WLS Private Data

Working Papers

• Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2017).  High School Genetic Diversity and Later-life Student Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
  • Previously entitled Genetic diversity and economic outcomes: A novel test of a controversial hypothesis.
  • Working Paper / NBER version / VoxEU
• Cook, C.J., Forgues, A., & Fletcher, J. (2017).  Multigenerational effects of early life health shocks.
  • Working Paper (Text / Tables)
• Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2017).  Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US.
  • Working Paper

Work-in-Progress

• Cook, C.J.  Digitizing civilization borders: 3500 BCE to the present. 
  • Preview of the data.