Publications
Year (field_pub_date)

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:

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:

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).

Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Janelle M. Pham. 2021. Pp. 343-351

"Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene."

Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies, edited by James J. Dean and Nancy L. Fischer. New York/Routledge.

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 OrganizationOctober 2020,178: 424-448. 

Alami, S., von Rueden, C., Seabright, E., Kraft, T.S., Blackwell, A.D., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., & Gurven, M. 2020. 

"Mother’s social status is associated with child health in a horticulturalist population."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1922). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2783. 

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:

Delgado Helleseter, Miguel, Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen. 2020. 

"The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Preferences: Evidence from Four Job Boards."

Journal of Human Resources 55(2): 428-469. 

Lundberg, Shelly. 2020. 

"Educational Gender Gaps."

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

Wong, Yan Ling Anne, and Maria Charles. 2020. 

"Gender and Occupational Segregation."

Pp. 305-325 in Companion to Women’s & Gender Studies, Nancy A. Naples, ed. Hoboken, NJ: W

Charles, Maria. 2020. 

"Gender Attitudes in Africa: Liberal Egalitarianism across 34 Countries."

Social Forces

Chow, Tiffany and Maria Charles. 2020. 

"An Inegalitarian Paradox: On the Uneven Gendering of Computing Occupations around the World."

In Cracking the Digital Ceiling. Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Yang, Rujun, 2020. 

"Varieties of Feminisms in Contemporary China: Local Reception and Reinvention of Liberal Feminism in Ford Foundation Projects."

Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.

Budge, Jason and Maria Charles. 2020. 

"Trends in Support for Stay-at-Home Mothering."

Contexts 19(2): 71-73.

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:

Lundberg, Shelly. 2020. 

"Women in the economics profession: Challenges and opportunities along the pipeline."

Introduction to Women in Economics, CEPR Press. 

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. 

Thébaud, Sarah. 2019.

"How to Close the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship.”"

Pp. 69-72 in New Visions for Gender Equality. Edited by Niall Crowley and Silvia Sansonetti. Brussels: European Commission. https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/saage_report-new_visions_for_gender_equality-2019.pdf

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.