Nicholas A. Christakis

Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2013
Rose McDermott, James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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Genes, Economics, and Happiness

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2946
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2010
Jan‐Emmanuel De Neve, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler and Bruno S. Frey
University of Oxford, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy, UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and CREMA
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happiness, subjective well-being, genetics

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Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 22 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2009
John T. Cacioppo, James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
University of Chicago - Department of Psychology, UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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Born to Lead? A Twin Design and Genetic Association Study of Leadership Role Occupancy

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 24 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2012
Jan‐Emmanuel De Neve, Slava Mikhaylov, Christopher T. Dawes, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
University of Oxford, University College London, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
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leadership, genetic association, twin study

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The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years

New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 357, No. 4, pp. 370-379, July 26, 2007
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Aug 2007
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
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Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study

British Medical Journal, Vol. 3, January 2009
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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A Genome-Wide Association Study of Educational Attainment

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Aug 2010
Jonathan Beauchamp, David Cesarini, Matthijs J. H. M. van der Loos, Philipp Koellinger, Patrick J. F. Groenen, James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler, Niels J. Rosenquist, Roy Thurik, Roy Thurik and Nicholas A. Christakis
Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science and Department of Economics, George Mason University., New York University (NYU), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Applied Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Harvard University - Massachusetts General Hospital, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics (CASBEC)Montpellier Business School and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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Education, Genetics and Economics, Genoeconomics, GWAS

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Model of Genetic Variation in Human Social Networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, No. 6, pp. 1720-1724, February 2009
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2009
James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler, Christopher T. Dawes and Nicholas A. Christakis
UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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Widowhood Effects in Voter Participation

American Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2019
William R. Hobbs, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
Cornell University, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
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turnout, political participation, social isolation, mobilization, spouse, death, loss, widowhood effect, causal inference

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Estimating Peer Effects on Health in Social Networks

Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 1400-1405, September 2008
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
James H. Fowler, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy
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Friendships Moderate an Association Between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology

Journal of Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2010
Jaime Settle, Christopher T. Dawes, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Political Science, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
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Social Network Predictors of Latrine Ownership

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Nov 2012
Holly Shakya, Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler and James H. Fowler
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and UC San Diego Division of Social SciencesUniversity of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
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social networks, social norms, India, latrines, open-defecation