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Biography

Jason Boardman's research focuses on the social determinants of health with an Ìýemphasis on the gene-environment interactions related to health behaviors.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in statistics, social demography, and the sociology of race and ethnicity. Professor Boardman lives in 91¸£ÀûÉç with his wife Alison, their two children Anya and Izak, and their dog Marlowe.

Publications

• Assortative Mating and Differential Fertility by Phenotype and Genotype across the 20th Century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming.
• Polygenic influence on educational attainment: New evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. ÌýAERA Open. 1(3): 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2332858415599972.
• What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health? Social Science & Medicine 127:171-180.
• Replication and robustness of genome-wide association studies for behavioral traits 2014. Psychological Science 25(11):1975-1986. PMID: 25287667
• Polygenic risk predicts obesity in both white and black young adults. PLOS ONE 9(7):e101596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101596
• Genetic and educational assortative mating among US adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(22):7996-8000.
• Defining the environment in gene–environment research: lessons from social epidemiology. American Journal of Public Health. 103(S1): S64–S72.
• Genetic sensitivity to peer behaviors: 5HTTLPR, smoking, and alcohol consumption. Journal of Health & Social Behavior 54(1):92-108.
• How social and genetic factors predict friendship networks. 2012. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(43):17377-17381.