broom center for demography

Mehta, Aashish and Alison Brysk. Forthcoming.

"Do rights at home boost rights abroad? Sexual equality and humanitarian foreign policy."

Journal of Peace Research.

Research Themes:

Pearson CR, Cassels S. 2014.

"Place and sexual partnership transition among young American Indian and Alaska Native Women."

AIDS & Behavior. 18(8): 1443-1453. NIMHMS 544384.

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria, Bridget Harr, Erin Cech and Alexandra Hendley. 2014.

"Who Likes Math Where?"

Gender Differences in Eighth-graders' Attitudes around the World. International Studies in Sociology of Education 24:85-112.

Research Themes:

Royer, Heather and Allison Witman. 2014.

"Intergenerational Effects on Health - In Utero and Early Life"

for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics produced by Elsevier.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

López-Carr, D. and D. Ervin. Forthcoming.

"Population, Poverty, and the Nutrition Transition"

in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards sustainable food systems. Ed. Colin Sage.

Research Themes:

Charness, Garyand Chun-Lei Yang.

"Starting Small towards Voluntary Formation of Efficient Large Groups in Public Goods Provision."

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 102,June, 2014, 119-132.

Research Themes:

Stieglitz, J., M. Gurven, E. Schniter, C. von Rueden, & H. Kaplan. In press.

"Functional disability and social conflict increase risk of depression in older adulthood among Bolivian forager-farmers."

Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Research Themes:

Yongjin Li, David López-Carr, Wenjiang Chen. (2014)

"Factors Affecting Migration Intentions in Ecological Restoration Areas and Their Implications for the Sustainability of Ecological Migration Policy in Arid Northwest China"

Sustainability. Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 8639-8660, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Research Themes:

Eakin, H., H. Perales, K. Appendini, and S. Sweeney (2014).

"Selling Maize in Mexico: The Persistence of Peasant Farming in an Era of Global Markets."

Development and Change. 45(1), 133-155.

Research Themes:

Royer, Heather with Silvia Prina. 2014.

"The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico."

Journal of Health Economics, 37: 232-247.

Research Themes:

Foran, John, Corrie Ellis, and Summer Gray. 2014.

"At the COP: Global Climate Justice Youth Speak Out."

Research Themes:

Taylor, Verta. 2014.

"Preface to Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life"

edited by Adam Isaiah Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. xiii-xv.

Research Themes:

Von Rueden C, Trumble BC, Blackwell AD, Stieglitz J, Kaplan H, Gurven M (2014).

"Political influence in an egalitarian society associates with lower cortisol but not lower disease burden."

Evolution Medicine and Public Health.

Research Themes:

Friedkin, N.E. Forthcoming.

"Social Justice in Local Systems of Interpersonal Influence"

in Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality, edited by Jane McLeod, Ed Lawler and Michael Schwalbe. Springer.

Rupp, Leila J., Verta Taylor, Shiri Regev-Messalem, Alison Fogarty and Paula England. 2014.

"Queer Women in the Hookup Scene: Beyond the Closet?"

Gender &Society 2 (2): 212-235.

Research Themes:

John R. Weeks. 2014.

"The World Can't Support Its Current Population Without Inequality and Poverty."

World Geography: Understanding a Changing World (http://worldgeography2.abc-clio.com/).

Research Themes:

Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Blackwell, A., Trumble, BC., Gurven, M., and Kaplan, H. (In Press).

"Work to live and live to work: Productivity, transfers, and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age."

In: Weinstein, M., and Lane, M. (eds.). Advances in bio-demography: cross-species comparisons of social environments and social behaviors, and their effects on health and longevity. National Academy Press.

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier. 2014.

"Temperature, Human Health, and Adaptation."

A Review of the Empirical Literature, Energy Economics, November 2014, Volume 46, pp. 606-619

Research Themes:

Brown, M., K. Grace, K. G. Shively, K. Johnson, M. Carroll. 2014.

"Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data to Assess Human Health and Nutrition Response to Environmental Change."

Population and Environment, 1-25.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R. 2014.

"History and Future of World Population"

Chapter 2 in Deborah McFarlane, Editor, Global Population and Reproductive Health (Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning).

Research Themes:

Veile, A., Martin, M., McAllister, L., Gurven, M.

"Modernization is associated with intensive breastfeeding patterns in the Bolivian Amazon."

Social Science and Medicine 100:148-158.

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Research Themes:

López-Carr, A. and D. López-Carr. 2014.

"Environment and Food or Population, Health, Environment, and Food?"

Sociologia Ruralis.54 (1), 101-104.

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Research Themes:

Weinberger, C. 2014..

"The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills."

in the Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(5):849-861.

Research Themes:

A.E. Larsen, A. J. MacDonald, & Andrew J.

"Lyme Disease Risk Influences Human Settlement in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of Counties in the Northeastern United States"

Am J Trop Med Hyg Published online July 21, 2014; doi:10.4269/ajtmh.14-0181

Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Research Themes:

Walker, B., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and K. Currier. 2014.

"Perceptions of environmental change in Moorea, French Polynesia: the importance of temporal, spatial, and scalar contexts."

GeoJournal. March, 1-15.

Research Themes:

Winant, Howard. Forthcoming.

"Foreword to John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson, eds."

The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants,a New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge.

Research Themes:

Ellis, Corrie. 2014.

"Women Working on a Fair Flower Farm in Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study."

In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi:

Population Health and Environment, Sex and Gender

Research Themes:

de Sherbinin, A., D. López-Carr, S. Cassels, L. Jiang, A. Lopez-Carr, K.M. Miller. Mark McGinley, Editor-in-Chief. 2014.

"Population Environment Theory and Contemporary Applications"

Encyclopedia of the Earth. Washington, D.C., Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. 24pp.

Research Themes:

Katz DA, Cassels S, Stekler JD. 2014.

"Replacing Clinic-based Tests with Home-use Tests May Increase HIV Prevalence among Seattle Men Who Have Sex with Men: Evidence from a Mathematical Model."

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 41(1): 2-9. (PMCID: PMC3955208)

Research Themes:

Hopkins, Jason J. 2014.

"Sacralizing Queerness: LGBT Faith Movements and Identity Deployment"

Pp. 159-177 In Queering Religion, Religious Queers, edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon. London: Routledge.

Research Themes:

Trumble, B., Cummings, D.K., O’Connor, K.A., Holman, D.J., Smith, E.A., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M.D. In press.

"Age-independent increases in male salivary testosterone during horticultural activity among Tsimane forager-farmers."

Evolution and Human Behavior.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Sex and Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Cassels S, Jenness SM, Biney AAE, Ampofo WK, Dodoo FN. Forthcoming.

"Migration, sexual networks, and HIV in Agbogbloshie, Ghana."

Demographic Research.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary,Francesco Feri, Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez, and Matthias Sutter. 2014.

"Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection."

Econometrica.

Research Themes:

Gurven, M., C. von Rueden, J. Stieglitz, H. Kaplan, & D. Eid Rodriguez. 2014.

"The evolutionary fitness of personality traits in a small-scale subsistence population."

Evolution & Human Behavior, 35, 17-25.

Research Themes:

Zvoleff, A., S. Wandersee, L. An, D. López-Carr. 2014.

"Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC)."

Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford University Press.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval.

"Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence."

Management Science, 60, January, 2014, 38-55.

von Rueden, C., M. Gurven, H. Kaplan, & J. Stieglitz. In press.

"Leadership in an egalitarian society."

Human Nature.

Research Themes:

Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Chen, C., & Lopez-Carr, D. (2014).

"The importance of place: Unraveling the vulnerability of fisherman livelihoods to the impact of marine protected areas"

Applied Geography.

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier. 2014.

"Environmental Regulations and Labor Markets"

IZA World of Labor.

Research Themes:

Lerner, A., S. Sweeney, and H. Eakin (2014).

"Growing buildings in corn fields: Urban expansion and the persistence of maize in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico."

Urban Studies51(10), 2185-2201.

Research Themes:

Mirtabatabaei A., P. Jia, N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo. Forthcoming.

"On the reflected appraisals dynamics of influence networks with stubborn agents."

In American Control Conference, Portland, OR, USA, June 2014.

Stets, Jan, Peter Burke, Kay Deux, Jill Keilcolt, Bert Klandermans, Richard Sherpe, Sheldon Stryker, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier. 2014.

"Identity Module of the 2014 General Social Survey."

National Opinion Research Center.

Research Themes:

Miner, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Gaulin, S. 2014.

"Sex difference in travel is concentrated in adolescence and tracks reproductive interests."

Proceedings of Royal Society B281, 20141476.

Research Themes:

Friedkin, N.E. Forthcoming.

"Scale-Free Interpersonal Influences on Opinions in Complex Systems."

Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

Thébaud, Sarah. 2014.

"Can we pull back the curtain on old-fashioned assumptions?"

Gender & Society blog posting.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

John R. Weeks. 2014.

"Demographic Transition Theory, and Malthus, Thomas."

George Ritzer, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing Co.).

Research Themes:

Trumble BC, Smith EA, O’Connor KA, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD. (2014).

"Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20132876

Research Themes:

Major, B., Hunger, J., Bunyan, D & Miller, C.T. 2014.

"The ironic effects of weight stigma."

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 74-80.

Research Themes:

Kuhn, Peter and Hani Mansour. 2014.

"Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?"

Economic Journal.

Weeks, John R. 2014.

"Population Theories and Dynamics"

Chapter 5 in Deborah McFarlane, Editor, Global Population and Reproductive Health (Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning).

Research Themes:

C. Costello, O. Deschênes, A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines.

"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."

Journal of Bioeconomics.

Research Themes:

López-Carr, D., N.G. Pricope, J. Aukema, C. Funk, M. Jankowska, G. Husak, and J. Michaelsen.

"A spatial analysis of population dynamics and climate change in Africa: Potential vulnerability hot spots emerge where precipitation declines and demographic pressures coincide."

Population and Environment. 35 (3), 323-339.

Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Research Themes:

Weinberger, C. 2014.

"Are There Racial Gaps in High School Leadership Opportunities? Do Academics Matter More?"

in the Review of Black Political Economy, 41(4):393-409.

Research Themes:

Fessler, D.M.T, Pisor, A.C., & Navarrete, C.D.

"Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs."

PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. 2014.

Research Themes:

McCarthy, J., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and B. Walker.2014.

"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."

GeoJournal. April, 1-11.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly and Robert Pollak. 2014.

"The Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010"

in Human Capital and History: The American Record, eds. Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Engeman, Cassandra.

"Social Movement Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Marches."

Work, Employment and Society. Forthcoming.

Research Themes:

Dover, T., Major, B. & Kaiser, C. R. 2014.

"Diversity initiatives, status, and system-justifying beliefs: When and how diversity efforts de-legitimize discrimination claims."

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 17(4), 485-493.

Katz DA, Cassels S, Stekler JD. 2014.

"Response to the modelling analysis by Katz et al on the impact of replacing clinic-based HIV tests with home testing among men who have sex with men in Seattle: Authors' reply."

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 41(5):320.

Research Themes:

Steigerwald, Doug and Valerie Bostwick.

"Obtaining Critical Values for Test of Markov Regime Switching"

Stata Journal, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 481-498.

Rios, V.M. and Galicia, Mario. 2014.

"Smoking Guns or Smoke & Mirrors?: Schools and the Policing of Latino Boys."

Association of Mexican American Educators Journal.

Research Themes:

Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

López-Carr, D. and D. Phillips. Forthcoming.

"Place Utility"

in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary,Ramón Cobo- Reyes and Natalia Jiménez.

"Identities, Selection, and Contributions in a Public-goods Game."

Games and Economic Behavior, 87, September, 2014, 322-338.

von Rueden, C. 2014.

"A comment on the service-for-prestige theory of leadership."

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 412.

Research Themes:

Von Rueden, CR, Trumble, BC, Emory Thompson, M, Stieglitz, J, Hooper, PL, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, HS, Gurven, M. (2014)

"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health"

eou021, DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou02

Research Themes:

von Rueden, C. In press.

"The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies."

In J. Cheng, J. Tracy, & C. Anderson (Eds.) The Psychology of Social Status. Springer.

Research Themes:

von Rueden, C., Trumble, B., Emery Thompson, M., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P.L., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2014.

"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers."

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 122-133. doi:10.1093/emph/eou021

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier. Forthcoming.

"Climate Change, Human Health, and Adaptation: A Review of the Empirical Literature"

Energy Economics(NBER Working Paper No. 18345)

Research Themes:

Eakin, H., C. Bausch, and S. Sweeney (2014).

"Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform: The 'Maize Boom' of Sinaloa, Mexico."

Journal of Agrarian Change14 (1), 26-51.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Sex and Gender

Trumble BC, Stieglitz J, Emery Thompson M, Fuerstenberg E, Kaplan H, Gurven M. (2014).

"Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."

American Journal of Human Biology.

Research Themes:

Friedkin, N.E. Forthcoming.

"Models of Influence in Networks"

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Science, 2nd edition. Elsevier.

Taylor, Verta and Leila J. Rupp. 2014.

"Are we still queer even though we're married?"

Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds 13 (2): 83-87.

Research Themes:

Gregory Weeks and John R. Weeks. 2014.

"The political demography of U.S.-Cuba relations."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/18/the-polit….

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health

Lassek, W. D. and S. J. C. Gaulin. 2013.

"Breast milk DHA content predicts cognitive performance in a sample of 28 nations. "

Maternal & Child Nutrition.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, Battagali, Pierpaolo and Martin Dufwenberg. 2013.

"Deception: The Role of Guilt. "

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93, September, 2013, 227-232.

Charness, Gary, and Tsz Cheung.

"A Restaurant Experiment in Charitable Contributions"

Economics Letters, 119, April, 2013, 48-49.

Sutton, John.

"Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants"

Social Science Research 42 (2013) 1207-1221.

Côrtes, J.C., L.K. Suter, A. D'Antona, and D. López-Carr.

"Population mobility and land fragmentation: land use-cover change in Brazil and Guatemala."

Proceedings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 4.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Charness, Gary, Gneezy, Uri, and Michael Kuhn. 2013.

"Extra-Laboratory Experiments: Extending the Reach of Experimental Economics."

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 91, July, 2013, 93-100.

Lundberg, Shelly, Katrine Løken and Kjell Erik.

"Your Place or Mine? On the Location Decisions of Married Couples"

Demography, February 2013, 50(1), 285-310.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Charles, Maria.

"The Local Joneses: Household Consumption and Income Inequality in Large Metropolitan Areas"

Forthcoming. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Research Themes:

Murtinho, F., C. Tague, B. de Bievre, H. Eakin, and D. López-Carr. 2013.

"Water Scarcity in the Andes: A Comparison of Local Perceptions and Observed Climate, Land Use and Socioeconomic Changes."

Human Ecology: 1-15.

Research Themes:

Cassels S and Katz DA. 2013.

"Seroadaptation among men who have sex with men: emerging research themes."

Current HIV/AIDS Reports10(4): 305-313. (PMCID: PMC3946930).

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Rossin-Slater, Maya.

"WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics"

Journal of Public Economics, 102: 51-69, June 2013.

Research Themes:

Aitken S, Swanson K, and Kennedy E.

"Unaccompanied Child and Youth Migrants: Navigating Relational Borderlands."

Chapter in Spyros, S. and Christou, M. (eds.) Children and Borders Palgrave.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Walker, R., Beckerman, S., Flinn, M., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Cordoba, L., Villar, D., Hagen, E., Koster, J., Hill, K.

"Living with kin in lowland horticultural societies"

Current Anthropology, 54, 96-103. 2013.

Research Themes:

A.E. Larsen.

"Landscape simplification does not consistently drive insecticide use."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 10.0173/pnas.1301900110.

Research Themes:

Townsend, S.S.M., Eliezer, D., Major, B., Mendes, W.B. (2013).

"Influencing the world versus adjusting to constraints: Social class moderates responses to discrimination."

Social Psychological and Personality Science.5(2), 226-234.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Lerner, A., H. Eakin, and S. Sweeney.

"Characterizing peri-urban households across a rural-urban gradient in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico"

Journal of Rural Studies 20, 52-63.2013.

Research Themes:

Yang, Qingsheng , Kevin M. Mwenda, Miao Ge.

"Incorporating geographical factors with artificial neural networks to predict reference values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate."

International Journal of HealthGeographics. 2013.

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Research Themes:

Mehta, Aashish, Shikha Jha and Pilipinas Quising. 2013.

"Self-targeted food subsidies and voice: Evidence from the Philippines."

Food Policy.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Verta Taylor and Mayer Zald. 2013.

"Health Movements"

Pp. 555-558 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

López-Carr, D., Ervin, D., A. López-Carr (2013).

"The effects of population and land cover change on food security in Latin America from 1961 -2011."

Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 7.

Research Themes:

Jaeggi, A., Gurven, M. 2013.

"Reciprocity explains food sharing in humans and other primates independent of kin selection and tolerated scrounging: a phylogenetic meta-analysis."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20131615.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor. 2013.

"Identity Politics"

Pp. 580-584 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

Blackwell A, Martin M, Kaplan H, Gurven M. 2013.

"Antagonism between two intestinal parasites in humans: the importance of coinfection for infection risk and recovery dynamics."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1769): 20131671.