About the Authors

Mary E. Ward

Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

George McMahon

Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Beate St Pourcain

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

David M. Evans

Affiliations MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Cornelius A. Rietveld

Affiliations Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Daniel J. Benjamin

Affiliation Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Philipp D. Koellinger

Affiliations Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

David Cesarini

Affiliations Center for Experimental Social Science, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

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George Davey Smith

Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Timpson

n.j.timpson@bris.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJT MEW. Analyzed the data: NJT MEW. Wrote the paper: NJT MEW DB PDK DC GDS DME BSP CR GM. Data production and management: GM DME BSP GDS.