Research

Health and Education area

Ervin, D and D Lopez-Carr.
"A Geriatric Fountain of Youth in the Caucuses or Spurious Census Data: Spooning through the Yogurt Myth"
Journal of Rural Studies. (27): 135-149. 2012.
Sawyer, P.J., Major, B., Casad, B., Townsend, SSM, & Mendes, WB.
"Discrimination and the stress response: Psychological and physiological consequences of anticipating prejudice in interracial interactions"
American Journal of Public Health.102.5, 1020-1026. 2012.
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Dalal, Pamela, Ian Jones, David López-Carr.
"Responding to Rural Health Disparities in the United States: The Geography of Emergency Care And Telemedical Technology"
Netcom. Issue 25, 3-4: 273-290. 2011.
Babcock, Philip, Kelly Bedard
"The Wages of Failure: New Evidence on School Retention and Long-run Outcomes"
Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 293-322. 2011
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Jacobson, Mireille, Heather Royer
"Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3(1): 189-223.
Rios, V.M.
"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"
New York University Press. 2011
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Belch, George E., Joni A. Mayer, Susan I. Woodruff, Donald J. Slymen, James F. Sallis, Jean L. Forster, Elizabeth J. Clapp, KatherineD. Hoerster, Latrice C. Pichon, John R. Weeks, Martin A. Weinstock, and Todd Gilmer
"Adolescents' Use of Indoor Tanning: A large-scale evaluation of psychosocial, environmental, and policy level correlates"
American Journal of Public Health, 101(5):930-938, 2011.
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Eliezer, D., Townsend, S. S. M., Sawyer, P. J., Major, B. & Mendes, W. B.
"System justifying beliefs moderate the relationship between perceived discrimination and resting blood pressure"
Social Cognition.29, 303-321.
Chafe, Zoë A, Marta M. Jankowska, David Lopez-Carr, Chris Funk, Gregory J Husak.
"Climate Change and Human Health: Spatial Modeling of Water Availability, Malnutrition, and Livelihoods in Mali, Africa"
Applied Geography. 33:4-15. 2011.
Deschênes, Olivier, Michael Greenstone
"Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (October 2011): 152-185. http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.3.4.152
McCrary, Justin, Heather Royer
"The Effect Of Female Education On Fertility And Infant Health: Evidence From School Entry Policies Using Exact Date Of Birth"
American Economic Review, 2011, 101(1): 158-195.
Rios, V.M. and Cesar Rodriguez
"Incarcerable Subjects: Working Class Black and Latino Male Youth in Two California Cities."
Young Men in Uncertain Times. Oxford: Marion Berghan. 2011
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Brodine, Stephanie K., Justin Stoler, , Simeon Bromfield, John R. Weeks, and Henry P. Scarlett
"Exploring the relationships between dengue fever knowledge and Aedes aegypti breeding in St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica: A pilot of enhanced low-cost surveillance"
Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2011(2):93-103.
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Aswani, S., T. Furusawa, H. Furusawa, R. Eddie, M. Tuni, and F. Pitakaka
"Communicable and non-communicable diseases in the Solomon Islands villages during recovery from a massive earthquake in April 2007"
The New Zealand Medical Journal 124: 28 pages. 2011
Blackwell, Aaron D., Michael D. Gurven, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Felicia C. Madimenos, Melissa A. Liebert, Melanie A. Martin, Hillard S. Kaplan, J. Josh Snodgrass
"Evidence for a Peak Shift in a Humoral Response to Helminths: Age Profiles of IgE in the Shuar of Ecuador, the Tsimane of Bolivia, and the U.S. NHANES"
2011
Babcock, Philip, Mindy Marks
"The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data"
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93, No. 2, Pages 468-478. 2011
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Hanna, Rema, Paulina Oliva
"The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City"
2011
Blackwell, AD., FC Madimenos , JJ Snodgrass, MA Liebert, TJ Cepon, LS Sugiyama
"Normative calcaneal quantitative ultrasound datafor the indigenous Shuar and non-Shuar Colonos of the Ecuadorian Amazon"
Arch Osteoporo, 2011
Rios, V.M.
"The Trials and Tribulations of Urban Ethnography."
Fenstermaker, S. and Jones, N. Sociologists Backstage Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do. New York: Routledge. 2011
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Engstrom, Ryan, Marta M. Jankowska, and John R. Weeks
"Do the Most Vulnerable People Live in the Worst Slums? A Spatial Analysis of Accra, Ghana"
Annals of GIS, 17(4):221-235. 2011
Marter-Kenyon, J.
"Bridging the Divide: A Third-Sector Approach to Health and Development."
Greener Management International. Special Issue, June 2007.
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Marter-Kenyon, J., Wun, J.
"Parallel Importation: A Threat to Pharmaceutical Innovation?"
Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers. 18(2): 29-40. 2006
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