Research

Publications

Major, B., Sawyer, P.J. & Kunstman, J.W. (2013).
"Minority perceptions of Whites' motives for responding without prejudice: The perceived internal and external motivation to avoid prejudice scales."
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 39(3), 401-414.
Hanson-Sobraske, K., J. S. Boster, and S. J. C. Gaulin (2013). 
"Mapping the conceptual space of jealousy"
Ethos 41:249-270.
Weeks, John R., Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler. 2013. 
"Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana"
Editors,  (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
Charness, Gary, and Tsz Cheung.
"A Restaurant Experiment in Charitable Contributions"
Economics Letters, 119, April, 2013, 48-49.
Sutton, John.
"Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants"
Social Science Research 42 (2013) 1207-1221.
Côrtes, J.C., L.K. Suter, A. D'Antona, and D. López-Carr. 
"Population mobility and land fragmentation: land use-cover change in Brazil and Guatemala."
Proceedings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 4.
Charness, Gary, Gneezy, Uri, and Michael Kuhn. 2013. 
"Extra-Laboratory Experiments: Extending the Reach of Experimental Economics."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 91, July, 2013, 93-100.
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.
Charles, Maria.
"The Local Joneses: Household Consumption and Income Inequality in Large Metropolitan Areas"
Forthcoming. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Murtinho, F., C. Tague, B. de Bievre, H. Eakin, and D. López-Carr. 2013.
"Water Scarcity in the Andes: A Comparison of Local Perceptions and Observed Climate, Land Use and Socioeconomic Changes."
Human Ecology: 1-15.
Cassels S and Katz DA. 2013. 
"Seroadaptation among men who have sex with men: emerging research themes."
Current HIV/AIDS Reports10(4): 305-313. (PMCID: PMC3946930).
Research Themes:
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.
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.
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.
A.E. Larsen.
"Landscape simplification does not consistently drive insecticide use."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 10.0173/pnas.1301900110.
Townsend, S.S.M., Eliezer, D., Major, B., Mendes, W.B. (2013). 
"Influencing the world versus adjusting to constraints: Social class moderates responses to discrimination."
Social Psychological and Personality Science.5(2), 226-234.
Research Themes:
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.
Yang, Qingsheng , Kevin M. Mwenda, Miao Ge.
"Incorporating geographical factors with artificial neural networks to predict reference values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate."
International Journal of HealthGeographics. 2013.
Mehta, Aashish, Shikha Jha and Pilipinas Quising. 2013. 
"Self-targeted food subsidies and voice: Evidence from the Philippines."
Food Policy. 
Verta Taylor and Mayer Zald. 2013.
"Health Movements"
Pp. 555-558 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
López-Carr, D., Ervin, D., A. López-Carr (2013). 
"The effects of population and land cover change on food security in Latin America from 1961 -2011."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 7. 
Jaeggi, A., Gurven, M. 2013. 
"Reciprocity explains food sharing in humans and other primates independent of kin selection and tolerated scrounging: a phylogenetic meta-analysis."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20131615.
Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor. 2013.
"Identity Politics"
Pp. 580-584 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Blackwell A, Martin M, Kaplan H, Gurven M.  2013.
"Antagonism between two intestinal parasites in humans: the importance of coinfection for infection risk and recovery dynamics."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1769): 20131671. 
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor. 2013. 
"Queer Girls on Campus: New Intimacies and Sexual Identities."
In Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life, eds. Alan Frank, Patricia Clough and Steven Seidman.  New York:  Routledge ), pp. 82-97.
Research Themes:
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.
Fischer, Stefanie. 2013.
"The Academic Achievement of American Indians"
Economics of Education Review 
Research Themes:
Thébaud, Sarah. 2013. 
"Entrepreneurship"
Pp. 251-254 in Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia edited by Vicki Smith. Sage Publications. 
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.
López-Carr, D. and J. Burgdorfer.
"Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land Use."
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. (55)1: 3-11. 2013.
Charles, Maria. 2013. 
"Sex Typing."
In Vicki Smith and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds. Sociology of Work. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications. 
Research Themes:
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. 
Stoler, Justin, John R. Weeks, and Günther Fink.
"Sachet drinking water in Ghana's Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area: Past, present, and future"
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 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.
Pricope, N., L. Pardo, D. López-Carr.
"Vulnerability to Climate Change."
 In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
Gaulin, S. J. C. (2013). 
"Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations"
second edition. San Diego: Cognella. 
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).
Aswani, S.
"Strategies for Designing Successful Marine Resource Management Programs in Oceania"
Pacific Science. 2013.
Kaiser, C. R., Major, B., Jurcevic, I., Dover, T., Brady, L. M., & Shapiro, J. R. (2013).
"Presumed fair: Ironic effects of organizational diversity structures."
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104 (3) 504-519.
Shen, Kailing, and Peter Kuhn. 2013. 
"Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board."
Research in Labor Economics 37(2013): 1-30.
Charness, Gary, Uri Gneezy and Alex Imas.
"Experimental Methods: Eliciting Risk Preferences"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 87, March, 2013, 43-51.
Lundberg, Shelly.
"The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality"
Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442.
Suter, L.K. and D. López-Carr. 
"Land cover change and ownership turnover in the agricultural frontier: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 11.
Charness, Gary, Du, Ninghua, Chun-Lei Yang, Lan Yao. 2013. 
"Promises in Contract Design."
European Economic Review, 64, November, 2013, 194-208.
Eliezer, D. & Major, B.
"It's not your fault: The social costs of claiming discrimination on behalf of someone else"
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Vol 15, no 4. 487-502. 2013.
Research Themes:
Kennedy E.
"Refugees from Central American gangs denied."
Forced Migration Review 43: 50-52.
Murtinho, F., H. Eakin, D. Lopez-Carr, and T. Hayes. 
"Does external funding help adaptation? Evidence from community-based water management in the Colombian Andes."
Environmental Management, 1-12. 
Cassels S, Jenness SM, Khanna A. 2013. 
"Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for Migration and HIV Transmission Dynamics."
AIDS & Behavior: Nov 21. NIMHMS 543091.
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.
Kennedy E.
"Confronting Lifetimes of Injustice in a Half-Day Workshop with IDPs in Bogota, Colombia."
Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.
Bremmer, L., K. Farley, and D. López-Carr. 2013.
"What factors influence participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services programs? An evaluation of Ecuador's SocioPáramo program."
Land Use Policy. 36:122-133.
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.
Chowdhury, Z., Campanella, L., Gray, C., Al Masud, A., Marter-Kenyon, J., Pennise, D., Charron, D.,Zuzhang, X.
"Measurement and modeling of indoor air pollution in rural households with multiple stove interventions in Yunnan, China."
Atmospheric Environment. Volume 67, March 2013: 161-169.
Simon, S., Kinias, Z., O'Brien, L.T., Major, B., Bivolaru, E. (2013). 
"Prototypes of discrimination: How status asymmetry and stereotype asymmetry affect judgments of racial discrimination."
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35(6), 525-533.
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.
Pisor, A.C., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., & Yetish, G., A.C., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., & Yetish, G.
"Patterns of senescence in cardiovascular fitness: VO2max in subsistence and industrialized populations."
American Journal of Human Biology 25(6), pp. 756-769. 2013.
Mehta, Aashish and Wei Sun. 2013. 
"Does industry affiliation influence wages? Evidence from Indonesia and the Asian Financial Crisis."
World Development. 
Verta Taylor and Alison Dahl Crossley. 2013.
"Abeyance"
Pp. 1-3 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Research Themes:
Ervin, Daniel.
"Review of 'Environment and Food' by Colin Sage"
Food, Culture, and Society, 16(1): 164-166. 2013.
Rios, V.M. 2013. 
"The Labeling Hype: Coming of Age in the Era of Mass Incarceration."
Dunier, Mitch et. al. The Urban Ethnography Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M.
"Natural cooperators: food sharing in humans and other primates"
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.
Engeman, Cassandra, Lynn Baumgartner, Benjamin Carr, Allison Fish, John Meyerhofer, Terre Satterfield, Patricia Holden, and Barbara Herr Harthorn. 
"The Hierarchy of Environmental Health and Safety Practices in the US Nanotechnology Workplace."
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 10(9): 487-495. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2013.818231. 2013.
Bernstein, Mary and Verta Taylor. 2013. 
"Marital Discord: Understanding the Contested Place of Marriage in the Lesbian and Gay Movement."
In The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage Within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, edited by Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 1-35.
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.
A. López-Carr, D. López-Carr, L. Grant, and J. Weeks. 
"The spaces and places of food security: learning from spatial, hierarchical, and econometric models in urban data-poor areas."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 10.
Thébaud, Sarah. 2013. Review of
"Women at Work: Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond"
Social Forces.
Research Themes:
Earl, Jennifer, Heather McKee Huwitz, Analicia Mejia Mesinas, Margaret Tolan and Ashley Arlotti.
"This Protest Will Be Tweeted: Twitter and protest policing during the Pittsburgh G20."
Information Communication and Society, 16(4): 459-478. 2013.
Research Themes:
Ervin, D. A. López-Carr, D. López-Carr.
"The Nutrition Transition"
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 21. 2013.
Charles, Maria. 2013. 
"Review of Conflict and Concord"
in Work and Family: Family Policies and Individuals' Subjective Experiences, by Ida Öun. Sociologisk Forskning. 
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. 
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.
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
Aide, TM, M. Clark, R. Grau, D. López-Carr, D. Redo, M. Bonilla, M. Levy.
"The deforestation and reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010)"
Biotropica. 45(2): 262-271. 2013.
Hodges-Simeon, C. R., M. D. Gurven, R. Cárdenas, and S. J. C. Gaulin (2013). 
"Voice change as a new measure of male pubertal timing: A study among Bolivian adolescents."
Annals of Human Biology40: 209-219. 
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).
Charness, Gary, Edi Karnia, and Dan Levin.
"Ambiguity Attitudes: An Experimental Investigation"
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 46, February, 2013, 1-25.
Research Themes:
Major, B., Mendes, W.B. & Dovidio, J. (2013).
"Intergroup relations and health disparities: A social psychological perspective."
Health Psychology, 32, 514-524.
Research Themes:
Bremner, J., D. López-Carr, A. Zvoleff, and N. Pricope. 
"Using new methods and data to assess and address population, fertility, and environment links in the Lake Victoria Basin."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 15. 
Winant, Howard and Michael Omi. 2013. 
"Resistance is futile?: A Response to Feagin and Elias."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 6.
Kuhn, Peter and Kaling Shen.
"Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China"
Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(1) (February 2013).
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.
López-Carr, D. 
"Do Population-Health-Environment (PHE) initiatives work? Evidence from WWF-sponsored projects in Africa and Asia."
Proceedings of theInternational Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 6. 
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)
Major, B., Eliezer, D. & Rieck, H.
"The psychological weight of weight stigma"
Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2013.
Research Themes:
Kennedy E.
"Unnecessary Suffering: the potential unmet mental health needs of Unaccompanied Alien Children."
JAMA Pediatrics 167(4): 319-20.
Pricope, N.G., G. Husak, C. Funk, D. López-Carr, and J. Michaelsen. 2013.
"The climate-population nexus in the East African Horn: emerging degradation trends in rangeland and pastoral livelihood zones."
Global Environmental Change 23 (6), 1525-1541.
Cheon, So-Min, D. Brown, K. Kok, D. López-Carr
"Mixed Methods in Land Change Research: Towards Integration"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. (37) 1:8-12. 2012.
Deschenes, Olivier and M. Greenstone.
"The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Reply"
American Economic Review, December 2012, Volume 102, Number 7, pp. 3761-3773.
Jankowska, M., D. López-Carr.
"Climate Change and Human Health: Contextual and Compositional Effects of Climate, Livelihoods, and Population Change on Child Malnutrition in Mali, Africa."
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Francisco, CA. 2012.
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.
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.
Bremner, J., J. Davis, D.L. Carr.
"Population Growth, Ecology, and Poverty."
In Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction. J. C. Ingram, F. DeClerck and C. Rumbaitis del Rio eds., Springer: New York. Pp. 65-78. 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.
Research Themes:
Mehta, Aashish and Shikha Jha.
"Corruption, Food Subsidies and Opacity: Evidence from the Philippines"
Economics Letters. Volume 117, Issue 3, December 2012, Pages 708-711.
Kennedy E.
"DREAMing Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
OpenDemocracy 50.50
Major, B., S.S.M. Townsend, P.J. Sawyer & W.B. Mendes
"From "in the air" to "under the skin": Cortisol responses to social identity threat"
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2012
Research Themes:
Mehta, Aashish and Rana Hasan.
"The effects of trade and services liberalization on wage inequality in India"
International Review of Economics and Finance (2012). 75-90.
Pisor, A.C., & Fessler, D.M.T.
"Commentary: Importing preferences and the pitfall of overgeneralization."
Behavior and Brain Sciences, 35(1), pp. 34-35. 2012.
O'Brien, L. T., Major, B. N., & Gilbert, P. N.
"Gender differences in entitlement: The role of system-justifying beliefs"
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34(2), 136-145. 2012.
Research Themes:
Rios, V.M.
"Gunfire as Conflict Resolution."
Room for Debate. The Opinion Pages. New York Times. March 21, 2012.