Research
Family Demography Publications
"Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the United States. "
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 16.3 (2024): 113-141
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"Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States: Trends, Correlates, and Other Interesting Facts. "
Journal of Labor Economics 42.S1 (202
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"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.
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"Latino/a Destinations and Health Access among Children in Latino/a Familie"
Population Research and Policy Review.
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"Urban and Rural BMI Trajectories in Southeastern Ghana: A Space-Time Modeling Perspective on Spatial Autocorrelation. "
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research, Volume 11, Number 1, Article 3, 2024.
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"The Future is a Foreign Country: We'll Do Things Differently There. "
Chapter 7 in T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso (editors), New Narratives on the Peopling of America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
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"Abortion and Women’s Future Socioeconomic Attainment. "
American Sociological Review.
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"Overlooked Consequences. "
Contexts 23(2): 62-65.
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"Immigrant Selectivity at School Entry. "
Sociological Forum, 39:48-65. Petersen, Nick, Yader R. Lanuza, and Marisa Omori. 2024 “Cumulative Colorism in Criminal Courts.” Social Science Research, 117:102946.
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"Misperception of peer beliefs reinforces inequitable gender norms among Tanzanian men. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences.
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"Toward a Sociological Perspective on the Gender and Sexuality of Friendship. "
Sociology Compass.
Research Themes:
"Gendered conflict in the human family. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e12. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e12.
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"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
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"What Is Friendship? Learning from Asexual and Aromantic Perspectives. "
Pp. 293–294 in Families as They Really Are, edited by V. E. Rutter, K. Williams, and B. J. Risman. 3rd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
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"Weak, but not strong, ties support coalition formation among wild female chimpanzees"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1868), 20210427
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"New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1868), 20210424.
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"Handbook of the Economics of the Family: Volume 1, eds"
Elsevier, 2023: xv-xxiii.
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"Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities."
Research in Labor Economics 50th Celebratory Volume, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023, 50: 151-189
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"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
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"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
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"Gender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination."
In American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2022, 112(5): 588-591.
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"Who Chooses Commitment? Evidence and Welfare Implications?"
Review of Economic Studies.
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"Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics? "
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111(5).
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" Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. "
Evolution and Human Behavior. 42: 165-175
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"“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.
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"Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'. "
Social Sciences. 10: 161
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"Holiday, Just One Day Out of Life: Birth Timing and Post-natal Outcomes. "
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (NBER Working Paper #27346).
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"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.
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"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.
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"Educational Gender Gaps. "
Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
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"When marriage is the best available option: perceptions of opportunity and risk in female adolescence in Tanzania. "
Global Public Health.
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"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "
PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346.
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"Companionship patterns and emotional states during social interactions for adolescents with and without siblings. "
Journal of Youth and Adolescence 48, no. 11: 2190-2206.
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"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:
"Parental care."
In Koster J, Scelza B, Shenk M (Eds). Human Behavioral Ecology.
Research Themes:
"Fathers favour sons, mothers don’t discriminate: sex-biased parental care in north-western Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1, e13.
Research Themes:
"Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. "
Demographic Research.
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"Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain ‘child marriage’ in northwestern Tanzania. "
Nature Human Behaviour. 3:346-353.
Research Themes:
"Sharing the load: the influence of co-resident children on the allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania. "
Demography.
Research Themes:
"‘Child marriage’ in context: Exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania. "
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27:1
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"Understanding ‘Harmful Cultural Practices.’ "
Anthropology News 59: 3; e219-e222.
Research Themes:
"Polygynous marriage and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the evidence for harm?"
Demographic Research 39: 177-208.
Research Themes:
"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:
"Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico."
Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(4) 975-991.
Research Themes:
"Trade-offs in children's time allocation: Mixed support for embodied capital models of the demographic transition in Tanzania."
Current Anthropology.
Research Themes:
"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:
"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:
"Canadian Contributions to Family Economics"
Canadian Journal of Economics December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323.
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"Abuelos at home: Differential impact on children's education by family structure."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 36-48.
Research Themes:
"Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone levels in rural Gambian men."
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3:221-240.
Research Themes:
"Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?"
European Economic Review, 109: 42-62.
Research Themes:
"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:
"Recent Trends in Internal and International Mexican Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, edited by Universidad Iberoamericana."
Forthcoming.
Research Themes:
"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:
"Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing."
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102.
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"Supply and demand explain reciprocal exchange of multiple commodities and individual differences in cooperation in a small-scale society."
Current Biology 26:1-8.
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"Ethnic dimensions of Guatemala's stalled transition: A parity- specific analysis of Ladino and indigenous fertility regimes."
Demography 53(1), 117-138.
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"Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania."
Evolution & Human Behavior 37:142-151.
Research Themes:
"Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Research Themes:
"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:
"The offspring quantity-quality trade-off and human fertility variation."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150145.
Research Themes:
"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 Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation."
American Economic Review.
Research Themes:
"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"
Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.
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"Physical Growth of the Shuar: Height, Weight, and BMI Growth References for an Indigenous Amazonian Population,"
American Journal of Human Biology, in press.
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"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.
Research Themes:
"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.
Research Themes:
"Infection with helminths affects fecundity and age of first pregnancy in human females, in submission."
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"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
Research Themes:
"The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010"
Future of Children. Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.
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"The Effects of Paid Maternity Leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance."
Journal of Health Economics, 43: 85-102.
Research Themes:
"Promoting Health in Early Childhood."
Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64
Research Themes:
"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:
"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:
"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:
"Intergenerational transfers explained by inclusive fitness in a traditional human society."
Proceedings Royal Society B 282, 20142808.
Research Themes:
"Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America."
Demographic Research, 30: 6 (187-226).
Research Themes:
"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:
"Modernization is associated with intensive breastfeeding patterns in the Bolivian Amazon."
Social Science and Medicine 100:148-158.
Research Themes:
"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:
"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."
Critical Sociology.
Research Themes:
"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:
"The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality"
Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442.
Research Themes:
"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.
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"Your Place or Mine? On the Location Decisions of Married Couples"
Demography, February 2013, 50(1), 285-310.
Research Themes:
"Living with kin in lowland horticultural societies"
Current Anthropology, 54, 96-103. 2013.
Research Themes:
"Household task delegation among high-fertility forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia."
Current Anthropology 54(2):232-241.
Research Themes:
"Same-Sex Couples, Families, and Marriage: Embracing and Resisting Heteronormativity"
Sociology Compass 7(2): 97-110.
Research Themes:
"Review of Conflict and Concord"
in Work and Family: Family Policies and Individuals' Subjective Experiences, by Ida Öun. Sociologisk Forskning.
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"The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Gay and Lesbian Movement"
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2013.
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"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.
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"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.
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"Polygyny among the Tsimane: an improved method for testing the polygyny-fertility hypothesis."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280.
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"The Local Joneses: Household Consumption and Income Inequality in Large Metropolitan Areas"
Forthcoming. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Research Themes:
"Paternity Acknowledgement in 2 Million Birth Records from Michigan"
PLoS ONE, 8(7): e70042, July 2013.
Research Themes:
"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.
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"Weathering the Storm: Hurricanes and Birth Outcomes"
Journal of Health Economics, 32(3): 487-503, February 2013.
Research Themes:
"Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life-Course in the Bolivian Amazon"
Aggressive Behavior. Volume 38, pages 194-207 (2012)
Research Themes:
"Personality and Marital Surplus"
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012, 1:3.
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"The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity?"
Editors, (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
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