Research

Publications

Brouwer, Kimberly C., Remedios Lozada, John R. Weeks, Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, Michelle Firestone-Cruz, and Steffanie A. Strathdee
"Intra-Urban Mobility and its Potential Impact on the Spread of Blood-Borne Infections among Drug Injectors in Tijuana, Mexico"
Substance Use and Misuse, 47(3):244-253. 2012.
Research Themes:
John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate.
"Introduction: What is the youth bulge and why does it matter?"
Chapter 1 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
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.
An, L., D. López-Carr.
"Modeling Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Research Directions."
Ecological Modeling. (229)1-4. 2012.
A.E. Larsen.
"Modeling multiple non-consumptive effects in simple food webs; a modified Lotka-Volterra approach."
Behavioral Ecology 23 (5): 1115-1125.
Research Themes:
Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A.D., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Cortez Linares, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H.
"Modernization, sexual-risk taking and gynecological morbidity among Bolivian forager-horticulturalists."
PLOS One, December 2012, Volume 7, Issue 12.
Coordinating lead authors: T. Evans, C. Hunsberger; Lead authors: T. M. Aide, J. Albaladejo Montoro, S. M. Borras Jr., H. F. del Valle, T. Devisscher, J. Jabbour, S. Kant, D. Lopez-Carr, H. Masundire, N. G. Pricope (GEO Fellow) and R. Sanchez-Rodriguez; Contributing authors: M. T. Abdelhamid, B. Alfthan, F. Ayache, A. A. Berhe, C. Chinweze, J. Frelichova, L. Hislop, W. K. Pan, B.Schulte-Herbruggen, J. Smith, C. Souza Jr.,T. L. Timmins (GEO Fellow) and L. C. Zulu.
"Part I: Assessment of the State and Trends of the Global Environment. Chapter 1: Land."
Fifth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 65-96. 2012.
An, Li, Sarah M. Wandersee, David López-Carr, Yeqin Yang.
"Perception and Decisions in Modeling Coupled Human and Natural Systems: A Case Study from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China"
Ecological Modeling. (229) 37-49. 2012.
Rios, V.M. and Lopez-Aguado.
"Performance of Cholo Style as Identity of Resistance In Aldama, Arturo et.al."
Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands. Indiana: Indiana University Press. 2012.
Research Themes:
Lundberg, Shelly.
"Personality and Marital Surplus"
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012, 1:3.
Trumble, B., D. Cummings, C. von Rueden, K. O'Connor, E. Smith, M. Gurven, & H. Kaplan.
"Physical competition increases testosterone among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists: a test of the "challenge hypothesis""
Proceedings of Royal Society B., 279, 2907-2912. 2012.
Ervin, Daniel.
"Point Pattern Analysis."
GIS Population Science, Topics in GIS and Population Science. GISPopSci.org. Pp.4. 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.
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.
Lundberg, Shelly
"Psychology and Family Economics"
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 2011 12 (Special Issue): 66-81
Research Themes:
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.
Charles, Maria.
"Review of Framed by Gender: Why Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World, by Cecilia Ridgeway."
European Sociological Review. 2012.
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)
Clark, M., J. Davis, López-Carr, D., M. Jankowska, L. Grant, A.C. López-Carr, M. Clark
"Space versus Place in Complex Human-Natural Systems: Spatial and Multi-level Models of Tropical Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) in Guatemala"
Ecological Modeling. 2012
Deschenes, Olivier, C. Costello, D. Ovando, R. Hilborn, S. Gaines, and S. Lester.
"Status and Solutions for the World's Unassessed Fisheries"
Science, October 26 2012, 338, 517-520.
Rios, V.M.
"Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance"
Contexts. American Sociological Association. Vol. 11, N. 2. 2012.
Charness, Gary and Uri Gneezy.
"Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk-taking"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83, June 2012, 50-58.
Research Themes:
Winant, Howard.
"The Dark Matter"
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 35, no. 4 (April 2012).
Research Themes:
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.
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.
Clark, Damon and Heather Royer
"The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain"
Working Paper 16013http://www.nber.org/papers/w16013. 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.
Charness, Gary, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Natalia Jiménez, Juan Lacomba, and Francisco Lagos.
"The Hidden Advantage of Delegation: Pareto-improvements in a Gift-exchange Game"
American Economic Review, 102, August, 2012, 2358-2379.
Aswani, S, P. Christie, N. Muthiga, R. Mahon, J. H. Primavera, L. A. Cramer, E. B. Barbier, E. F. Granek, C. J. Kennedy, E. Wolanski, and S. D. Hacker
"The Way Forward with Ecosystem- Based Management in Tropical Contexts: Reconciling with Existing Management Systems"
Marine Policy 36: 1-10. 2012
John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate.
"The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity?"
Editors, (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Research Themes:
Anonymous and Kennedy E.
"Through Hell to Limbo in a Lorry: Afghan Child Migrants to the UK."
OpenDemocracy 50.50 8 October 2012.
Guenther, C, H. Lenihan, L. Grant, D. López-Carr, D. Reed
"Trophic Cascased Induces by Lobster Fishing Are Not Ubiquitous in Suothern California Kelp Forests."
Plos One, November 2012, Volume 7, Issue 11.
Ashcroft, Eric, Douglas A. Stow, John R. Weeks, S. Toure, Christopher Lippitt, and Lloyd Coulter
"Urban vegetation cover and vegetation change in Accra, Ghana: Connection to housing quality"
Professional Geographer, 2012
von Rueden, C. & M. Gurven.
"When the strong punish: why net costs of punishment are often negligible"
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 43-44. 2012.
Ampofo, Joseph, Justin Stoler, Günther Fink, John R. Weeks, Richard Appiah Otoo and Allan G. Hill
"When Urban Taps Run Dry: Sachet Water Consumption and Health Effects in Low Income Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana"
Health & Place, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2012, pages 250-262.
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.
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).
Heather McKee Hurwitz and Verta Taylor.
"Women's Cultures and Social Movements in Global Contexts."
Sociology Compass. 6/10: 808-822. 2012.
Research Themes:
Friedkin, N.E. 
"A Formal Theory of Reflected Appraisals in the Evolution of Power"
Administrative Science Quarterly 56: 501-529. 2011.
Charles, Maria
"A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status"
Annual Review of Sociology 37:355-72. 2011
Belch, George E., Joni A. Mayer, Susan I. Woodruff, Donald J. Slymen, James F. Sallis, Jean L. Forster, Elizabeth J. Clapp, KatherineD. Hoerster, Latrice C. Pichon, John R. Weeks, Martin A. Weinstock, and Todd Gilmer
"Adolescents' Use of Indoor Tanning: A large-scale evaluation of psychosocial, environmental, and policy level correlates"
American Journal of Public Health, 101(5):930-938, 2011.
Research Themes:
Jacobson, Mireille, Heather Royer
"Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3(1): 189-223.
Kathryn Grace
"Against Abstinence-Only Education Abroad: Viewing Internet use During Study Abroad as a Possible Experience Enhancement"
Journal of Studies in International Education published online 18 October 2011.
Research Themes:
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.
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
Gaulin, S.J.C, M. Krasnow, D. Truxaw, J. New, H. Ozono, S. Uono, T. Ueno, and K. Minemoto
"Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans."
Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 1-12. 2011
Aswani, S., T. Furusawa, H. Furusawa, R. Eddie, M. Tuni, and F. Pitakaka
"Communicable and non-communicable diseases in the Solomon Islands villages during recovery from a massive earthquake in April 2007"
The New Zealand Medical Journal 124: 28 pages. 2011
Charness, Gary, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval.
"Competition and the Ratchet Effect"
Journal of Labor Economics, 29, July, 2011, 513-547
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
Blackwell, Aaron D., Michael D. Gurven, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Felicia C. Madimenos, Melissa A. Liebert, Melanie A. Martin, Hillard S. Kaplan, J. Josh Snodgrass
"Evidence for a Peak Shift in a Humoral Response to Helminths: Age Profiles of IgE in the Shuar of Ecuador, the Tsimane of Bolivia, and the U.S. NHANES"
2011
Brodine, Stephanie K., Justin Stoler, , Simeon Bromfield, John R. Weeks, and Henry P. Scarlett
"Exploring the relationships between dengue fever knowledge and Aedes aegypti breeding in St. Catherine Parish, Jamaica: A pilot of enhanced low-cost surveillance"
Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine, 2011(2):93-103.
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
Rupp, Leila, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Eds
"Feminist Frontiers (ninth edition)"
New York: McGraw-Hill. 2011
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary, and Aldo Rustichini 
"Gender Differences in Cooperation with Group Membership"
Games and Economic Behavior, 72, May, 2011, 77-85
Research Themes:
Verta Taylor, Leila J. Rupp
"Going Back and Giving Back: The Ethics of Staying in the Field"
Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue: Ethics: Beyond the IRB. 34(3): 483-496. 2011.
Research Themes:
Aswani, S., and A. Racelis
"Hopes and Disenchantments of Religious Community Forestry in the Western Solomon Islands"
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, 6(1) 26-38. 2011
Aswani, S.
"Hybridizing Customary and Modern Coastal Management for Conserving Marine Ecosystems in the Coral Triangle Region"
Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 14-30. 2011
Catherine Weinberger
"In Search of the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Earnings Growth among U.S. College Graduates in the 1990s"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64(5), October 2011.
Research Themes:
Rios, V.M. and Cesar Rodriguez
"Incarcerable Subjects: Working Class Black and Latino Male Youth in Two California Cities."
Young Men in Uncertain Times. Oxford: Marion Berghan. 2011
Research Themes:
Allayee, Hooman, Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn, Caleb E. Finch, Eileen M. Crimmins, Suvi A. Vikman, Jonathan Stieglitz, Michael Gurven, and Hillard Kaplan
"Inflammatory Gene Variants in the Tsimane, an Indigenous Bolivian Population with a High Infectious Load"
Biodemography and Social Biology 57(1):33-52. 2011
Charness, Gary, and Peter Kuhn.
"Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn in the Lab?"
Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4a, February, 2011, 229-330
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
Blackwell, AD., FC Madimenos , JJ Snodgrass, MA Liebert, TJ Cepon, LS Sugiyama
"Normative calcaneal quantitative ultrasound datafor the indigenous Shuar and non-Shuar Colonos of the Ecuadorian Amazon"
Arch Osteoporo, 2011
Charness, Gary and Martin Dufwenberg
"Participation"
American Economic Review, 101, June, 2011, 1211-1237
Rios, V.M.
"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"
New York University Press. 2011
Research Themes:
Dalal, Pamela, Ian Jones, David López-Carr.
"Responding to Rural Health Disparities in the United States: The Geography of Emergency Care And Telemedical Technology"
Netcom. Issue 25, 3-4: 273-290. 2011.
Gaulin, S.J.C. and W.D. Lassek
"Sex differences in the relationship of dietary fatty acids to cognitive measures in American children"
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 3. 2011
Eakin, Hallie, Elisa Frank, David Lopez-Carr
"Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico"
Global Environmental Change (21)1 : 66-76. 2011.
Aswani, S.
"Socio-ecological Approaches for Combining Ecosystem-based and Customary Management in Oceania"
Journal of Marine Biology doi:10.1155/2011/845385
Friedkin, N.E. 2011
"Spine Segments in Small World Networks"
Social Networks 33:88-97.
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).
Eliezer, D., Townsend, S. S. M., Sawyer, P. J., Major, B. & Mendes, W. B.
"System justifying beliefs moderate the relationship between perceived discrimination and resting blood pressure"
Social Cognition.29, 303-321.
Barrett, Clark, Frank W. Marlowe, J. Colette Berbesque, Alexander Bolyanatz, Michael Gurven and David Tracer
"The 'spiteful' origins of human cooperation"
Proceedings of Royal Society B 278: 2159-2164. 2011
McCrary, Justin, Heather Royer
"The Effect Of Female Education On Fertility And Infant Health: Evidence From School Entry Policies Using Exact Date Of Birth"
American Economic Review, 2011, 101(1): 158-195.
Hanna, Rema, Paulina Oliva
"The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City"
2011
Kuhn, Peter, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan Soetevent, and Arie Kapteyn
"The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and Their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery"
American Economic Review 101 (5) (August 2011). pp 2226-2247
Babcock, Philip, Mindy Marks
"The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data"
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93, No. 2, Pages 468-478. 2011
Research Themes:
Gurven, Michael, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan
"The Impact of Parents and Self-Selection on Child Survival among the Tsimane of Bolivia"
Current Anthropology 52(2):277-284. 2011
Garratt, Rodney, Catherine Weinberger and Nick Johnson
"The State Street Mile: Age and Gender Differences in Competition Aversion in the Field"
Economic Inquiry. Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 806-815.
Research Themes:
Brandts, Jordi, and Gary Charness
"The Strategy versus the Direct-response Method: A First Survey of Experimental Comparisons"
Experimental Economics, 14, September, 2011, 375-398
Gurven, Michael, Jeffrey Winking.
"The Total Cost of Father Desertion"
American Journal of Human Biology 23:755-763 (2011).
Rios, V.M.
"The Trials and Tribulations of Urban Ethnography."
Fenstermaker, S. and Jones, N. Sociologists Backstage Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do. New York: Routledge. 2011
Research Themes:
Babcock, Philip, Kelly Bedard
"The Wages of Failure: New Evidence on School Retention and Long-run Outcomes"
Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 293-322. 2011
Research Themes:
Du, Ninghua, Gary Charness, and Chun-Lei Yang
"Trust and Trustworthiness Reputations in an Investment Game"
Games and Economic Behavior, 72, June, 2011, 361-375
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor 
"Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp"
Pp. 217-230 in Sociologists Backstage:  Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do, eds. Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones.  New York:  Routledge. 2011
Charles, Maria
"What Gender is Science?"
Contexts 22-28. 2011
Research Themes:
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
Gaulin, S. J. C. and W.D. Lassek
"Why Women Need Fat"
New York: Hudson Street/Penguin Group. 2011
H. Liere & A.E. Larsen.
"Cascading trait-mediation: disruption of a trait-mediated mutualism by parasite-induced behavioral modifications."
Oikos 119: 1394-1400.
A.E. Larsen & S.M. Philpott.
"Twig-nesting ants: the hidden predators of the Coffee Berry Borer, Hypothenemus hampei in Chiapas, Mexico."
Biotropica 42(3): 342-347.
Marter-Kenyon, J.
"Bridging the Divide: A Third-Sector Approach to Health and Development."
Greener Management International. Special Issue, June 2007.
Research Themes:
Marter-Kenyon, J., Wun, J.
"Parallel Importation: A Threat to Pharmaceutical Innovation?"
Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers. 18(2): 29-40. 2006
Research Themes: