broom center for demography

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

Amy, Elizabeth Ackert, Sarah Roche, Dionne Parris, Kyle Crowder, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. 2023 (on-line).

"Keeping Kin Close? Geographies of Family Networks by Race and Income, 1981-2017."

Journal of Marriage and Family 85(4):962-986. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12911

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg and Alessandra Voena, eds. 2023

"Preface"

Handbook of the Economics of the Family: Volume 1, Elsevier, 2023: xv-xxiii.

Research Themes:

Wikle, Jocelyn, and Ackert, Elizabeth. 2022.

"Child Citizenship Status in Immigrant Families and Differential Parental Time Investments in Siblings. "

Social Sciences (Special Issue: “Rethinking the Mobilities of Migrant Children and Youth Across the Americas”). 11(11):507. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11110507

Research Themes:

Ackert, Elizabeth, and Jocelyn Wikle. 2022.

"Familism among Latino/a Adolescents: Evidence from Time-Use Data. "

Journal of Marriage and Family. 84(3):879-899. http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12809

Research Themes:

Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor, and Dmitry Taubinsky). 2021 forthcoming.

"Who Chooses Commitment? Evidence and Welfare Implications?"

Review of Economic Studies.

Research Themes:

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:

Schaffnit SB, Urassa M, Wamoyi J, Dardoumpa M, & Lawson DW. 2021.

"“I have never seen something like that”: Discrepancies between lived experiences and the global health concept of child marriage in northern Tanzania. "

PLOS ONE. 16(4): e024920.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB & Lawson DW. 2021.

"Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'. "

Social Sciences. 10: 161

Research Themes:

Lawson DW, Schaffnit SB, Hassan A, & Urassa M. 2021.

" Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. "

Evolution and Human Behavior. 42: 165-175

Research Themes:

Heather Royer (With Mireille Jacobson and Maria Kogelnik). 2020.

"Holiday, Just One Day Out of Life: Birth Timing and Post-natal Outcomes. "

Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (NBER Working Paper #27346).

Research Themes:

Lei, Ziteng and Shelly Lundberg. 2020.

"Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage "

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. October 2020,178: 424-448.

Research Themes:

Berg V, Lawson DW, Rotkirch A. 2020.

"Financial opportunity costs and deaths among close kin are independently associated with reproductive timing in a contemporary high-income society. "

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly. 2020.

"Educational Gender Gaps. "

Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW, Lynes R, Morris A & Schaffnit SB. 2020.

"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "

PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB, Wamoyi J, Urassa M, Dardoumpa M, & Lawson DW. 2020.

"When marriage is the best available option: perceptions of opportunity and risk in female adolescence in Tanzania. "

Global Public Health.

Research Themes:

Wikle, Jocelyn S., Elizabeth Ackert, and Alexander C. Jensen. 2019.

"Companionship patterns and emotional states during social interactions for adolescents with and without siblings. "

Journal of Youth and Adolescence 48, no. 11: 2190-2206.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW. 2019.

"Parental care."

In Koster J, Scelza B, Shenk M (Eds). Human Behavioral Ecology.

Research Themes:

Hassan A, Schaffnit SB, Sear R, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Fathers favour sons, mothers don’t discriminate: sex-biased parental care in north-western Tanzania. "

Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1, e13.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW & Gibson MA. 2019.

"Evolutionary Approaches to Population Health: Insights on Polygynous Marriage, ‘Child Marriage’ and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. "

Burger O, Lee R & Sear, R. (Eds). Human Evolutionary Demography.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB. Hassan A, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain ‘child marriage’ in northwestern Tanzania. "

Nature Human Behaviour. 3:346-353.

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Lawson DW, Todd J, Urassa M & Sear R. 2019.

"Sharing the load: the influence of co-resident children on the allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania. "

Demography.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"‘Child marriage’ in context: Exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania. "

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27:1

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Sear R, Todd J, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. "

Demographic Research.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lawson DW & Gibson MA. (2018)

"Understanding ‘Harmful Cultural Practices.’ "

Anthropology News 59: 3; e219-e222.

Research Themes:

Yahirun, Jenjira, and Erika Arenas. 2018.

"Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico."

Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(4) 975-991.

Research Themes:

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

Hedges S, Sear R ,Todd J, Urassa M, & Lawson DW. 2018.

"Trade-offs in children's time allocation: Mixed support for embodied capital models of the demographic transition in Tanzania."

Current Anthropology.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW, Gibson MA. 2018.

"Polygynous marriage and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the evidence for harm?"

Demographic Research 39: 177-208.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly. 2018.

"Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital."

Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW: University of Chicago Press.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW, Schaffnit SB, Hassan A, Ngadaya E, Ngowi B, Mfinanga SGM, James S, Borgerhoff Mulder M. 2017.

"Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty and poor child health in northern Tanzania."

American Journal of Human Biology 29 e22938.

Research Themes:

Erika Arenas, Hector Conroy, Jenna Nobles. Forthcoming.

"Recent Trends in Internal and International Mexican Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, edited by Universidad Iberoamericana."

Forthcoming.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

J. Yao and A.T. Murray. 2017.

"A spatial optimization approach for solving a multi-facility location problem with continuously distributed demand."

Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems - Contributions from GIS&T, Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling, edited by J.-C. Thill (Springer's Advances in Spatial Science Series), to appear.

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg (with Katrine Løken and Julie Riise). 2017.

"Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children."

Journal of Human Resources. 52(1): 247-271.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, S (with Aloysius Siow). 2017.

"Canadian Contributions to Family Economics"

Canadian Journal of Economics December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323.

Research Themes:

Arenas, Erika. 2017.

"Abuelos at home: Differential impact on children's education by family structure."

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 36-48.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lawson DW, Núñez-de la Mora A, Cooper GD, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Sear R. 2017.

"Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone levels in rural Gambian men."

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3:221-240.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, S (with Anne Ardila Brenøe). 2018.

"Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?"

European Economic Review, 109: 42-62.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya. Forthcoming.

"Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being"

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Research Themes:

Witenko, V., Mireles-Rios, R. and Rios, V.M. 2016.

"Networks of Encouragement: Who's encouraging Latino students and White students to enroll in honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses?"

Journal of Latinos and Education.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW & Borgerhoff Mulder M. 2016.

"The offspring quantity-quality trade-off and human fertility variation."

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150145.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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:

Rossin-Slater, Maya and Petra Persson. Forthcoming.

"Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation."

American Economic Review.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lawson DW, James S, Ngadaya E, Ngowi B, Mfinanga SGM, Borgerhoff Mulder M. 2016.

"Reply to Rieger and Wagner: Context matters when studying purportedly harmful cultural practices."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg (with Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns). 2016.

"Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing."

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102.

Research Themes:

Jaeggi, A., Hooper, P., Beheim, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016.

"Supply and demand explain reciprocal exchange of multiple commodities and individual differences in cooperation in a small-scale society."

Current Biology 26:1-8.

Research Themes:

Grace, K. and S. Sweeney. 2016.

"Ethnic dimensions of Guatemala's stalled transition: A parity- specific analysis of Ladino and indigenous fertility regimes."

Demography 53(1), 117-138.

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Borgerhoff Mulder M, James S, Lawson DW. 2016.

"Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania."

Evolution & Human Behavior 37:142-151.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Blackwell, AD, Tamayo, M, Beheim, B, Trumble, BC, Stieglitz, J, Hooper, PL, Martin, M, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)

"Infection with helminths affects fecundity and age of first pregnancy in human females, in submission."

Research Themes:

M. Benza, JR Weeks, DA Stow, KC Clarke, D, López-Carr (2015).

"Fertility and Urban Context: A Case Study from West Africa Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS."

Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Diego, CA

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg with Robert Pollak). 2015.

"The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010"

Future of Children. Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.

Research Themes:

Stearns, Jenna. 2015.

"The Effects of Paid Maternity Leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance."

Journal of Health Economics, 43: 85-102.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya. 2015.

"Promoting Health in Early Childhood."

Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Steiglitz, J, Trumble, B, Emery Thompson, M, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)

"Depression as sickness behavior? A test of the host defense hypothesis in a high pathogen population, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity."

in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.05.008

Research Themes:

Maryam Alaeddini, David López-Carr (2015).

"Why Has Iran's Family Planning Policy Been So Successful? Political, Demographic, Socio-economic, and Cultural-Geographical Underpinnings of a Dramatic Fertility Transition."

Rural Studies.(2)38: 111-128.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

Shelly Lundberg. 2015.

"Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld's The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America"

Journal of Economic Literature. December 2015: 53(4): 945-960

Research Themes:

Hooper, P.L., Gurven, M., Winking, J., Kaplan, H.S. 2015.

"Intergenerational transfers explained by inclusive fitness in a traditional human society."

Proceedings Royal Society B 282, 20142808.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly. 2015.

"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"

Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Urlacher, SS, Blackwell, AD, Liebert, MA, Madimenos, FC, Cepon-Robins, TJ, Gildner, TE, Snodgrass, JJ, Sugiyama, LS. (2015)

"Physical Growth of the Shuar: Height, Weight, and BMI Growth References for an Indigenous Amazonian Population,"

American Journal of Human Biology, in press.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya, Janet Currie. 2015.

"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg. 2015.

"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.

Research Themes:

Winant, Howard. Forthcoming.

"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."

Critical Sociology.

Research Themes:

Grace, Kathryn and Stuart Sweeney. 2014.

"Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America."

Demographic Research, 30: 6 (187-226).

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:

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:

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:

Bernstein, Mary and Verta Taylor.

"The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Gay and Lesbian Movement"

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2013.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel.

"Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes"

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 32(2): 224-245, Spring 2013.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Gurven, M., C. von Rueden, M. Massenkoff, H. Kaplan, & M. Lero Vi.

"How universal is the Big Five? Testing the Five-Factor Model of personality variation among forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 354-370. 2013.

Research Themes:

Winking, J., Stieglitz, J., Kurten, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H.

"Polygyny among the Tsimane: an improved method for testing the polygyny-fertility hypothesis."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280.

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria.

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

Forthcoming. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya and Doug Almond.

"Paternity Acknowledgement in 2 Million Birth Records from Michigan"

PLoS ONE, 8(7): e70042, July 2013.

Research Themes:

Grace, Kathryn and Stuart Sweeney

"Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries: A case study of Guatemala"

Journal of Population Research. March 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1, 19-37.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya and Janet Currie.

"Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes"

Journal of Health Economics, 32(3): 487-503, February 2013.

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:

Lundberg, Shelly.

"The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality"

Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442.

Research Themes:

Rahilly, Elizabeth. 2013.

"The Parental Transition: A Study of Parents of Gender Variant Children"

in Chasing Rainbows: Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices. Eds. Fiona Joy Green and May Friedman. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press.

Research Themes:

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:

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:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Hooper, P.

"Household task delegation among high-fertility forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia."

Current Anthropology 54(2):232-241.

Research Themes:

Hopkins, Jason, Anna Sorensen, and Verta Taylor. 2013.

"Same-Sex Couples, Families, and Marriage: Embracing and Resisting Heteronormativity"

Sociology Compass 7(2): 97-110.

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria. 2013.

"Review of Conflict and Concord"

in Work and Family: Family Policies and Individuals' Subjective Experiences, by Ida Ã–un. Sociologisk Forskning.

Research Themes:

Rios, V.M.

"Gunfire as Conflict Resolution."

Room for Debate. The Opinion Pages. New York Times. March 21, 2012.

Family Demography, Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Research Themes:

McAllister, L., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Stieglitz, J.

"Why Do Women Have More Children Than They Want? Understanding Differences in Women's Ideal and Actual Family Size in a Natural Fertility Population"

American Journal of Human Biology 24: 786-799 (2012).

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Gurven, M., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P., Gomes, C., Kaplan, H.

"From the womb to the tomb: the role of transfers in shaping the evolved human life history."

Experimental Gerontology 47:807-813. 2012.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Gurven, Michael, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking

"Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager-farmers: testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict"

Evolution and Human Behavior, 33: 438-448. 2012.

Research Themes:

Gurven, M.

"Human survival and life history in evolutionary perspective"

The Evolution of Primate Societies. Mitani, J., Call, J., Kappeler, P., Palombit, R., Silk, J. (Eds). 2012. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages 293-314.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Rossin-Slater, Maya and Christel Brellochs.

"Preconception Health and Health Care and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Opportunities for Collaboration"

National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Report, May 2012.

Research Themes:

Veile, A., Winking, J., Gurven, M., Greaves, R.D., Kramer, K.L. 2012.

"Infant growth and the thymus: data from two South American native societies."

American Journal of Human Biology 24:768-775. 2012.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Honzak, C., D. López-Carr.

"Conservation and Family Planning: What is the Value of Integrating Family Planning into Conservation Projects?"

Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Francisco, CA.

Research Themes:

Gurven, Michael, Stacey L. Rucas, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan

"Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life-Course in the Bolivian Amazon"

Aggressive Behavior. Volume 38, pages 194-207 (2012)

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lundberg, Shelly.

"Personality and Marital Surplus"

IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012, 1:3.

Research Themes:

John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate.

"The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity?"

Editors, (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.

Research Themes:

Gurven, M.

"Infant and fetal mortality among a high mortality population in the Bolivian Amazon."

Social Science and Medicine 24:786-799.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

An, L., D. López-Carr.

"Modeling Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Research Directions."

Ecological Modeling. (229)1-4. 2012.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly

"Psychology and Family Economics"

Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 2011 12 (Special Issue): 66-81

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Gurven, Michael, Christopher von Rueden and Hillard Kaplan

"Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige"

Proceedings of Royal Society B 278: 2223-2232. 2011

Research Themes:

Gurven, Michael, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan

"Father death and adult success among the Tsimane: implications for marriage and divorce"

Evolution and Human Behavior 32:79-89. 2011

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria

"A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status"

Annual Review of Sociology 37:355-72. 2011

Research Themes:

Gurven, Michael D., Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking, and Basilio Vie Tayo.

"Spousal Violence and Paternal Disinvestment Among Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists"

American Journal of Human Biology 23:445-457 (2011).

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Jacobson, Mireille, Heather Royer

"Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services"

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3(1): 189-223.

Research Themes: