Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
4401 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 262-4436
jfletcher@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: by appt (F'13)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
"The Challenge of Causal Inference in Gene-Environment Interaction Research: Leveraging Research Designs from the Social Sciences" (with Dalton Conley)
American Journal of Public Health in press
"A Sibling Death in the Family: Common and Consequential." (with Marsha Seltzer, Jieun Song, and Barbara Wolfe)
Demography 2013
"Why Have Tobacco Control Policies Stalled? Using Genetic Moderation to Examine Policy Impacts"
PLoS ONE 2012
"How Do Social and Genetic Factors Predict Friendship Networks" (with Ben Domingue and Jason Boardman)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012, 109 (43) 17377-1738
"Genetic Lotteries within Families." (With Steven Lehrer)
Journal of Health Economics 2011, 30(4): 647-659
"The Effect of Classmate Characteristics on Post-Secondary Outcomes: Evidence from the Add Health." (with Robert Bifulco and Stephen Ross)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy February 2011 3(1): 25–53
"The Effects of Soft Drink Taxation on Soft Drink Consumption and Weight for Children and Adolescents." (with David Frisvold and Nathan Tefft)
Journal of Public Economics 2010, 94 (11-12): 967-974