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Overview

Jeremy Freese is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences, with a particular focus on the intersection of genetics, sociology, and health.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study are diversified and include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Genetics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Health
  • Statistics and Probability

Key research topics explored by Jeremy Freese include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences

Their recent academic papers feature contributions to several prominent journals and venues. Some notable publications are:

  • "Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals", 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository", 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Reconsidering the Reference Category", 2021, Sociological Methodology
  • "Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics: Risks, Potential Benefits, and Ethical Responsibility", 2023, The Hastings Center Report

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Pamela Herd
  • Tamkinat Rauf
  • John Gerring
  • David A. Hinds
  • Rafael Ahlskog

Jeremy Freese has published extensively in several venues with multiple publications, including:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Genetics

In addition to articles, Freese has published at least one book with Cambridge University Press titled The Production of Knowledge (2020), which has been cited in scholarly work.

Best Publications

  • Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata

    J. Scott Long;Jeremy Freese

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • Promoting an open research culture

    B. A. Nosek;G. Alter;G. C. Banks;D. Borsboom

  • The Generalizability of Survey Experiments

    Kevin J. Mullinix;Thomas J. Leeper;James N. Druckman;Jeremy Freese

  • The Demographic and Political Composition of Mechanical Turk Samples

    Kevin E. Levay;Jeremy Freese;James N. Druckman

  • Comparing data characteristics and results of an online factorial survey between a population-based and a crowdsource-recruited sample

    Jill D. Weinberg;Jeremy Freese;David McElhattan

  • Toward some fundamentals of fundamental causality: Socioeconomic status and health in the routine clinic visit for diabetes

    Karen Lutfey;Jeremy Freese

  • Regression Models for Categorical Outcomes using Stata

    J S Long;Jeremy Freese

  • Variation in the Heritability of Educational Attainment: An International Meta-Analysis

    Amelia R. Branigan;Kenneth J. McCallum;Jeremy Freese

  • Most Reported Genetic Associations With General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives

    Christopher F. Chabris;Benjamin M. Hebert;Daniel J. Benjamin;Jonathan P. Beauchamp

  • Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies.

    Daniel W. Belsky;Benjamin W. Domingue;Robbee Wedow;Louise Arseneault

  • Replication in Social Science

    Jeremy Freese;David Peterson

  • Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.

    Matthew J Salganik;Ian Lundberg;Alexander T Kindel;Caitlin E Ahearn

  • When do older adults turn to the internet for health information? Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.

    Kathryn E. Flynn;Mph Maureen A. Smith Md;Jeremy Freese;Jeremy Freese

  • Genetics and the social science explanation of individual outcomes.

    Jeremy Freese

  • The promises and pitfalls of genoeconomics

    Daniel J. Benjamin;David Cesarini;Christopher F. Chabris;Edward L. Glaeser

  • Nature, Nurture, Neither, Nor: Black-White Differences in Beliefs about the Causes and Appropriate Treatment of Mental Illness

    Jason Schnittker;Jeremy Freese;Brian Powell

  • The potential relevances of biology to social inquiry

    Jeremy Freese;Jui-Chung Allen Li;Lisa D. Wade

  • Replication Standards for Quantitative Social Science: Why Not Sociology?

    Jeremy Freese

  • Fundamental Causality: Challenges of an Animating Concept for Medical Sociology

    Jeremy Freese;Karen Lutfey

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Hauser
Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian Powell
Brian Powell Indiana University
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Jason D. Boardman
Jason D. Boardman University of Colorado Boulder
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher F. Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris Geisinger Health System
Daniel W. Belsky
Daniel W. Belsky Columbia University

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