2014. “A Closer Look at the Role of Parenting-Related Influences on Verbal Intelligence: Results from an Adoption-Based Research Design” Intelligence 46 (September/October):179-187.
2014. “The Association of Parent-Reported Lead Exposure with Language Skills and Externalizing Behavioral Problems in Children” Journal of Geography and Natural Disasters 4 (October/November):1-6.
2013. “Young Adults in the Parental Home and the Great Recession” National Center for Family and Marriage Research.
2012. “Gene-Environmental Interaction and the Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting:Testing the Differential-Susceptibility Hypothesis” Psychiatric Quarterly.
2011. “Tough Love? Crime and Parental Assistance in Young Adulthood” Criminology.
2010. “Cumulative-Genetic Plasticity, Parenting and Adolescent Self-Regulation” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
2010. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Self-Control” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency2010.
2008. “Evidence of Negligible Parenting Influences on Self-Control, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency in a Sample of Twins” Justice Quarterly.
2005. “Do Parents Matter in Creating Self-Control in Their Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Theory of Low Self-Control” Criminology.
2001. “Community Effects on the Resolution of Adolescent Premarital Pregnancy” Journal of Family Issues.