Research

Health and Education area

Fischer, Stefanie, Heather Royer, and Corey White. 2024. 
"Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States. "
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16.3 (2024): 113-141
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Fox, S. A., Muller, M. N., Camargo Peña, N., Thompson González, N., Machanda, Z., Otali, E.,  Wrangham, R., & Emery Thompson, M. 2024.
"Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees"
Animal Behaviour, 217, 21–38.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.008
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health
Robinson, Sarah, Heather Royer, and David Silver. 2024. 
"Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States: Trends, Correlates, and Other Interesting Facts. "
Journal of Labor Economics 42.S1 (202
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Jain, S., Bey, G. S., Forrester, S. N., Rahman-Filipiak, A., Thompson Gonzalez, N., Petrovsky, D. V., Kritchevsky, S. B., & Brinkley, T. E. 2024.
"Aging, Race, and Health Disparities: Recommendations from the Research Centers Collaborative Network. "
The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbae028. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae028
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Hodges, C. and S. Sweeney. 2024. 
"Food security change in the college student population due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A decline for many, an improvement for a few. "
Social Sciences & Humanities Open 9, 100820.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Ackert, Elizabeth, Sigrid Van Den Abbeele, and Hannah Malak. In Press.
"Resources for Health within Latinx Communities: A Sociall-Spatial Determinants of Health Perspective"
Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health, eds. Imelda Moise and Marynia Kolak. Springer Geography.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Ackert, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Potochnick. In Press
"Latino/a Destinations and Health Access among Children in Latino/a Familie"
Population Research and Policy Review.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Percy A. Pierre and Catherine J. Weinberger. 2024.
"The 50-Year History of the Minority Engineering Effort: How the Engineering Profession Sparked the Movement to Diversify Its Workforce. "
Fall 2024 National Academy of Engineering publication "The Bridge" (V. 54 No. 3) 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Catherine J. Weinberger. 2024. 
"Does the Minority Engineering Effort Have a Flat Tire?"
The Bridge 54(3) forthcoming fall 2024.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Kapsetaki SE, Fortunato A, Compton Z, Rupp SM, Nour Z, Riggs-Davis S, Stephenson D, Duke EG, Boddy AM, Harrison T M, Maley CC, Aktipis A. 2023.
"Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life? "
PloS one 18.6(e0287901.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Gary Charnes. (with Daniela Grieco). 2023. 
"Creativity and Corporate Culture "
Economic Journal, 133, July, 2023, 1836-1870
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness (with Francesco Feri, Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez, and Matthias Sutter. Forthcoming.
"Communication and (Non-) Equilibrium Selection. "
Forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness. (with Alessandro Sontuoso). 2023.
"The Doors of Perception: Theory and Evidence of Frame-Dependent Rationalizability."
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 33(2), May, 2023, 309-344.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness (with Alexander Cappelen, Mathias Ekström, Uri Gneezy, and Bertil Tungodden). Forthcoming.
"Exercise Improves Academic Performance. "
Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness (with Nir Chemaya and Dario Trujano-Ochoa). 2023. 
"Learning Your Own Risk Preferences "
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 67, August, 2023, 1-19
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness (with Xin Jiang). 2023. 
"Fortune and Identity. "
Economics Letters, 222, January, 2023, 110954.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gary Charness (with Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Erik Eyster, Gabriel Katz, Ángela Sánchez, and Matthias Sutter). Forthcoming.
"Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence. "
Forthcoming in European Economic Review).
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Boddy AM. 2022. 
"The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research. "
European Journal of Epidemiology. 1-6.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Carrera, Mariana, Heather Royer, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor, and Dmitry Taubinsky. 2022. 
"Who chooses commitment? Evidence and welfare implications. "
The Review of Economic Studies 89, no. 3 (2022): 1205-1244.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Cross, Jeffrey, and Richard Uhrig. 2022. 
"Do Fans Impact Sports Outcomes? A COVID-19 Natural Experiment. "
Journal of Sports Economics, (May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/15270025221100204. website: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/6ITHRZS6DZHVSHHHIF34/full   
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Ackert, Elizabeth, Matthew Snidal, and Robert Crosnoe. 2021.
"The Development of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Identity among Mexican-Origin Youth across Latino/a Destinations."
Developmental Psychology. 57(11):1910-1925. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001251
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
LO O’Donnell, EC Hill, AS Anderson, HJH Edgar. 2021. 
"A biological approach to adult sex differences in skeletal indicators of childhood stress. "
American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24424
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health
C. Jin and A.T. Murray. 2021. 
"Exploring public open data: micro-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of restaurant entrepreneurship in Seoul, Korea. "
 International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research 8(3), 5.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, and Justin Sydnor). 2020
"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
Management Science, 2020, 66(5): 1783-2290. (Also NBER Working Paper #23188)
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gabrielle G. Gonzales and Catherine J. Taylor. 2021.
"Teaching Sociology of Gender During Covid-19: Lessons from Contexts Magazine."
Contexts, Sociology for the Public, Blog. April 15, 2021.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Royer, Heather. 2021.
"Benefits of megastudies for testing behavioural interventions"
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Research Themes:
Education and Health
Hamilton DT, Katz DA, Luo W, Stekler JD, Rosenberg ES, Sullivan PS, Goodreau SM, Cassels S. 2021. 
"Effective strategies to promote HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men: evidence from a mathematical model. "
Epidemics 37:100518.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Ackert, Elizabeth, Matthew Snidal, and Robert Crosnoe. 2021. 
"The Development of STEM Efficacy and Identity among Mexican-Origin Youth across Latino/a Destinations. "
Developmental Psychology. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Ackert, Elizabeth, Sung Hee Hong, Jessica Martinez, Gabriel Van Praag, Pedro Aristizabal, and Robert Crosnoe. 2021. 
"Understanding the Health Landscapes where Latinx Immigrants Establish Residence in the United States.”"
Health Affairs. 40(7): 1108-1116.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Bedard, Kelly, Jacqueline Dodd and Shelly Lundberg. 2021  
"Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics? "
 American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111(5).
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health
Dover, T. L., Major, B., & Kaiser, C. R. 2020. 
"Cardiovascular, behavioral and psychological responses to organizational prodiversity messages among racial/ethnic minorities. "
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1-21. doi: 10.1177/1368430220944222.  
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Major, B., Rathbone, J. A., Blodorn, A., & Hunger, J. M. 2020. 
"The countervailing effects of weight stigma on weight-loss motivation and perceived capacity for weight control. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/0146167220903184. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gordon, A. M., Prather, A. A., Dover, T., Espino-Perez, K., Small, P., & Major, B. 2020.
"Anticipated and experienced ethnic/racial discrimination and sleep: A longitudinal study. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/014616722C928859. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
C Hové, BC Trumble, AS Anderson, J Stieglitz, H Kaplan, MD Gurven, AD Blackwell. 2020. 
"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaa022  
Research Themes:
Education and Health
AO O'Donnell, E Hill, AS Anderson, H Edgar. 2020. 
"Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Accepted. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Deschenes, O (with J. Weill, M. Springborn, and M. Stigler). 2020. 
"Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19 Emergency Declarations Strongly Differentiated by Income. "
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  202009412. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009412117
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Ressler, Robert W., Elizabeth Ackert, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2020. 
"Race/ethnicity, human capital, and the selection of young children into early childhood education. "
Social Science Research 85: 102364. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Ressler, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2020. 
"Community Contexts, Supply of Early Childhood Programs, and Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment among Mexican- Origin Children."
Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 52(A):4-14. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Lundberg, Shelly. 2020. 
"Educational Gender Gaps. "
Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health
Kuhn, Peter and Lizi Yu. 2020. 
"How Costly is Turnover? Evidence from Retail. "
 Journal of Labor Economics.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
K. Grace, A.T. Murray and R. Wei. 2020. 
"Improving urban and peri-urban health outcomes through early detection and aid planning. "
Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health, edited by Y. Lu and E. Delmelle, 231-250 (Cham: Springer) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19573-1_12).
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Heather Royer (With Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, and Anya Samek). Forthcoming.
"When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice"
AEJ: Economic Policy (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor, and Dmitry Taubinsky). 2018.
"The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise."
Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 62: 95-104. (Also NBER Working Paper #24959).
Research Themes:
Education and Health
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Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary B. (with Michael Naef and Alessandro Sontuoso). 2019. 
"Opportunistic Conformism."
Journal of Economic Theory 100-134) 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
McCleary-Gaddy, A. T., Miller, C. T., Grover, K. W., Hodge, J. J., & Major, B. 2019. 
"Weight stigma and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis reactivity in individuals who are overweight. "
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53. (4), 392-398. doi: 10.1093/abm/kay042. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Dover, T. L., Major, B., & Glace, A. M. 2019. 
"Discrimination, health, and the costs and benefits of believing in system fairness. "
Health Psychology, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/hea0000841. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary B. (with Tibor Neugebauer). 2019. 
"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage in Experimental Asset Markets"
Journal of Finance, 493-529) 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Small, P. A. & Major, B. 2019. 
"Crossing the racial line: The fluidity vs. fixedness of racial identity. "
Self and Identity, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1662839. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, Heather Royer, and Anya Samek. 2019.
"Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice. "
AEJ: Economic Policy 11 (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary B. (with Dan Levin and David Schmeidler). 2019. 
"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information.” "
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Dover, T. L., Hunger, J. M. & Major, B. 2019.
"Health consequences of prejudice and discrimination. "
In K. Sweeny & M. Robins (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Charness, Gary (with Dan Levin and David Schmeidler)
"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information"
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Celia Blanco, Lara Ezquerra, and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Forthcoming. 
"Cheating and Money Manipulation. "
Experimental Economics.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Catherine Eckel, Uri Gneezy, and Agne Kajackaite. Forthcoming. 
"Complexity in Risk Elicitation May Affect the Conclusions: A Demonstration Using Gender Differences. "
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
Charness, Gary (with Michael Naef and Alessandro Sontuoso
"Opportunistic Conformism"
Journal of Economic Theory, 100-134. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Crosnoe, and Tama Leventhal. 2019. 
"New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children. "
Demography 56, no. 5: 1607-1634.  
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Speroni, Cecilia, Alison Wellington, Paul Burkander, Hanley Chiang, Mariesa Herrmann, and Kristin Hallgren. Forthcoming. 
"Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation. "
Journal of Labor Economics.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
J. Yao, X. Zhang and A.T. Murray. 2019. 
"Location optimization of urban fire stations: accessibility and service coverage. "
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, 184-190 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.10.006).
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, and Justin Sydnor). 2019.
"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
Management Science (Also NBER Working Paper #23188).
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Daniela Grieco. 2019.
"Creativity and Financial Incentives."
Journal of the European Economic Association. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Tibor Neugebauer. Forthcoming. 
"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage Experimental Asset Markets."
Journal of Finance.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Catherine Eckel, Uri Gneezy, and Agne Kajackaite. Forthcoming. 
"Complexity in Risk Elicitation May Affect the Conclusions: A Demonstration Using Gender Differences."
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
Charness, Gary, with Chun-Lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Jaimie Lien, and Cong Liu
"Endogenous reward promotes cooperation."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(40), 9968-9973 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary, with Uri Gneezy and Austin Henderson. 2018. 
"Experimental Methods: Measuring Effort in Economics Experiments"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149, May, 2018, 74-87.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
S Fischer, H Royer, C White. 2018.
"The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortions, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases."
Journal of Public Economics. 167: 43-68.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Weinberger, C. 2018. 
"Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science"
in U.S. Engineering in the Global Economy, edited by Richard Freeman and Hal Salzman, National Bureau of Economic Research/University of Chicago Press. 
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Research Themes:
Education and Health
M Carrera, H Royer, M Stehr, J Sydnor. 2018. 
"Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? Experimental evidence with new gym members."
Journal of Health Economics 58, 202-214.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Kuhn, Michael A., Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval. 2017. 
"Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 137 (May 2017): 72-89.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Aldo Rustichini and Jeroen van de Ven. Forthcoming.
"Self Confidence and Strategic Behavior."
Experimental Economics.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Natalia Jiménez, Juan Lacomba, and Francisco Lagos). 2017.
"Renewable Dismissal Barriers, Job Security, and Long-term Investment."
European Economic Review, 95, June, 2017, 195-214.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Brianna Halladay). Forthcoming.
"Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics: Cousins but not Twins."
Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Cherness, Gary (with Marie Claire Villeval). 2017.
"Preserving Rank as a Social Norm."
Nature Human Behaviour, 1(7), Article 0137, July, 2017.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Aleksandr Alekseev and Uri Gneezy). 2017.
"Experimental Methods: When and Why Contextual Instructions May be Important."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 134, February, 2017, 48-59.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gurven, M., Fuerstenberg, E., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Davis, H., Kaplan, H. 2017. 
"Cognitive performance across the life course among Bolivian forager-farmers with limited schooling."
Developmental Psychology 53(1):160-176. + SUPPLEMENT
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Patrick Holder). Forthcoming.
"Charity in the Laboratory: Matching, Competition, and Group Membership."
Management Science.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Chetan Dave). 2017.
"Confirmation Bias with Motivated Beliefs."
Games and Economic Behavior, 104, July, 2017, 1-23.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander, and Wellington, Alison. 2017.
"Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Four Years."
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, December 2017. Available at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20184004/
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Stieglitz, J., Madimenos, F., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016. 
"Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound indicates reduced bone mineral status among physically active adult forager-horticulturalists."
J. of Bone and Mineral Research 31(3): 663-671. 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health
Jenness SM, Goodreau SM, Morris M, Cassels S. 2016. 
"Effectiveness of Combination Packages for HIV-1 Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa Depends on Partnership Network Structure: A Mathematical Modeling Study."
Sexually Transmitted Infections. Published Online First: 9 June 2016.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
T.H. Grubesic, R. Wei, A.T. Murray and W.A. Pridemore. 2016.
"Comparative approaches for assessing access to alcohol outlets: exploring the utility of a gravity potential approach."
Population Health Metrics 14, 25 (DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0097-x).
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Charness, Gary (with Uri Gneezy and Brianna Sheets). 2016.
"Experimental Methods: Pay one or Pay All."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 141-150.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Rossin-Slater, Maya and Petra Persson. Forthcoming. 
"Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation."
American Economic Review. 
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health
Blodorn, A., Major, B. & Kaiser, C. In press. 
"Perceived discrimination and poor health: Accounting for self-blame complicates a well-established relationship."
Social Science and Medicine. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Hoyt, C.H, Burnette, J.L, Auster-Gussman, L., Blodorn, A, & Major, B. In press. 
"The obesity stigma asymmetry model: The indirect and divergent effects of blame and changeability beliefs on anti-fat prejudice."
Stigma and Health.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Toren KG, Buskin SE, Dombrowski JC, Cassels S, Golden MR. 2016. 
"Time from HIV diagnosis to viral load suppression: 2007-2013."
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 43(1): 34-40. (PMCID: PMC4902572).
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
Cassels S, Camlin CS. 2016. 
"Geographical mobility and heterogeneity of the HIV epidemic."
Published online first July 8 2016. The Lancet HIV.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Charness, Gary (with Luca Rigotti and Aldo Rustichini). 2016.
"Social Surplus Determines Cooperation Rates in the One-shot Prisoner's Dilemma."
Games and Economic Behavior, 100, November, 2016, 113-124.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Erika Arenas, Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava. 2016.
"The impact of education and health heterogeneity on Generational Support Ratios in Mexico"
Ageing and Society, 1-38, doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000751
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Rossin-Slater, Maya, Adam Isen, and W. Reed Walker. Forthcoming. 
"Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970."
Journal of Political Economy. 
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Ryan, W., Hunger, J. & Major, B. In press. 
"Understanding LGB Mental and Physical Health Disparities Through the Lens of Stigma and Social Identity Threat."
Journal of Social Issues.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Gurven, M., Yetish, G., Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Cummings, D., Blackwell, A.D., Beheim, B., Kaplan, H., Pontzer, H. 2016. 
"High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health
Roberts ST, Khanna A, Barnabas RV, Goodreau SM, Baeten JM, Celum C, Cassels S. 2016. 
"Estimating the impact of universal antiretroviral therapy for HIV serodiscordant couples through home HIV testing: Insights from mathematical models."
JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 19:20864. (PMCID: PMC4865806).
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Sex and Gender
A.T. Murray. Forthcoming 2016. 
"Assessing the impacts of traditional school year calendar start dates."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Charness, Gary (with Ramón Cobo-Reyes and Ángela Sánchez). 2016.
"The Effect of Charitable Giving on Workers’ Performance: Experimental evidence"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 61-74.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr. Forthcoming.
"Feeding the World: Population, Resources and Food"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards Sustainable Food Systems, edited by Colin Sage. London:  Routledge.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Blodorn, A., Major, B., Hunger, J.M. & Miller, C.T. 2016. 
"Unpacking the psychological weight of weight stigma: A rejection-expectation pathway."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63,69-76. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.003.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Richman, L., Blodorn, A. & Major, B. In press. 
"An identity-based model of discrimination and health behaviors: Implications for Health Disparities."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Blodorn, A. & Major, B. (in press) Stigma.  In H. Miller (Ed.), 
"Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology"
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Kirby, T., Kaiser, C. & Major, B. (2015)
"Insidious procedures: Diversity awards legitimize unfair organizational procedures."
Social Justice Research, 28, 169-186. doi: 10.1007/s11211-015-0240-z
Research Themes:
Education and Health