Research

Race and Ethnicity area

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.
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.
Lerner, Amy, Hallie Eakin, Stuart Sweeney
"Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico"
Journal of Rural Studies, volume 30: pages 52-63. 2013
Sweeney, S., D. Steigerwald, F. Davenport, and H. Eakin.
"Mexican Maize Production: Evolving Organizational and Spatial Structures since 1980"
Applied Geography 39 (May 2013), 78-92.
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.
Jankowska, Marta, Magdalena Benza-Fiocco, and John R. Weeks. 2013. 
"Estimating Spatial Inequalities of Urban Child Mortality"
Demographic Research, 28(2):33-62. 
Weeks, John R., Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler. 2013. 
"Introduction"
to the Accra School: An Overview of Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Chapter 1 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer). 
Weeks, John R., Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler. 2013. 
"Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana"
Editors,  (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
Sweeney, S., F. Davenport and K. Grace.
"Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala."
Economics and Human Biology. Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2013, 164-177.
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.
Kennedy E.
"Refugees from Central American gangs denied."
Forced Migration Review 43: 50-52.
Kennedy E.
"Confronting Lifetimes of Injustice in a Half-Day Workshop with IDPs in Bogota, Colombia."
Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.
Toure, Sory, Douglas Stow, John R. Weeks, and Sanil Kumar. 2013. 
"Histogram Curve Matching Approaches for Object- Based Image Classification of Land Cover and Land Use"
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 79(5): 433-440. 
Zvoleff, Alex, Li An, Justin Stoler, John R. Weeks. 2013. 
"What if Neighbors' Neighborhoods Differ: The Influence of Neighborhood Definitions on Health Outcomes in Accra"
Chapter 9 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
Cassels S, Manhart L, Jenness S, and Morris M. 2013. 
"Short-term mobility and increased partnership concurrency among men in Zimbabwe."
PLoS ONE8(6): e66342. (PMCID: PMC368871)
Brouwer, Kimberly C., Melanie L. Rusch, John R. Weeks, Remedios Lozada, Alicia Vera, Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, and Steffanie A. Strathdee.
"Spatial Epidemiology of HIV Among Injection Drug Users in Tijuana, Mexico"
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2013.
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.
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.
Kennedy E.
"Unnecessary Suffering: the potential unmet mental health needs of Unaccompanied Alien Children."
JAMA Pediatrics 167(4): 319-20.
Kennedy E.
"US immigration bill: silence on the deportation of children."
OpenDemocracy 50.50
Stoler, Justin, John R. Weeks, and Richard Appiah Otoo. 2013. 
"Drinking Water in Transition: A Multilevel Cross- sectional Analysis of Sachet Water Consumption in Accra"
PLOS ONE, 8(6): e67257. 
Weeks, John R., Justin Stoler, Allan G. Hill, Alex Zvoleff. 2013. 
"Fertility in Context: Exploring Egocentric Neighborhoods in Accra"
Chapter 11 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
Cassels S, Jenness SM, Khanna A. 2013. 
"Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for Migration and HIV Transmission Dynamics."
AIDS & Behavior: Nov 21. NIMHMS 543091.
Kennedy E.
"DREAMing Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
OpenDemocracy 50.50
Coulter, Lloyd L., Gregg Verutes, and John R. Weeks
"Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana: Mapping Neighborhoods"
Journal of Maps, Special Issue on Innovative Mapping in Spatial Demography. 2012
Justin Stoler, Dean Daniels, John R. Weeks, Douglas A. Stow, Lloyd L. Coulter, and Brian K. Finch.
"Assessing the Utility of Satellite Imagery with Differing Spatial Resolutions for Deriving Proxy Measures of Slum Presence in Accra, Ghana"
GIScience & Remote Sensing, 49(1):31-52, 2012.
Anonymous and Kennedy E.
"Through Hell to Limbo in a Lorry: Afghan Child Migrants to the UK."
OpenDemocracy 50.50 8 October 2012.
John R. Weeks.
"Why Do Some Countries Have a Demographic Dividend and Others Do Not?"
Chapter 10 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Kennedy E.
"A Transnational Journey to be Someone: Central American Child Migrants to the US."
OpenDemocracy 50.50
Weeks, Gregory B., and John R. Weeks
"Immigration and Transnationalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in Latin America"
International Migration. 2012
Sweeney, S. and K. Grace.
"Regression Analysis of Anthropometry Data: A Simulation Study of a Two-Stage Estimator"
JSM Proceedings, Health Policy Statistics Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 2012.
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks.
"The Demographic Fit Between the US and Latin America"
Chapter 11 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Weeks, Gregory B. and John R. Weeks
"Latin American Migration to the United States: A Multidisciplinary View"
The Latin Americanist, 55(4):5-8. 2011
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.
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
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