Research

Publications

Quimby, Barbara, Stephen E. S. Crook, Karly Marie Miller, Jorge Ruiz, and David Lopez-Carr. 2020. 
"Identifying, defining and exploring angling as urban subsistence: Pier fishing in Santa Barbara, California. "
Marine Policy.
C Hové, BC Trumble, AS Anderson, J Stieglitz, H Kaplan, MD Gurven, AD Blackwell. 2020. 
"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaa022  
Research Themes:
Jones, Isabel J., et al. 2020. 
"Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.45 (2020): 28515-28524.
Elwell, T. L., López-Carr, D., Gelcich, S., & Gaines, S. D. 2020. 
"The importance of cultural ecosystem services in natural resource-dependent communities: Implications for management. "
Ecosystem Services, (44)101123–101136
Peng, Wanting, David López-Carr, Chengzhao Wu, Xin Wang, and Travis Longcore. 2020. 
"What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area communities to relocate? China's ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. "
Science of the Total Environment. 138364
Winant, Howard. 2020. 
"Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash. "
Pan-Americanism and Anti-Racism. In Hooker, Juliet, ed. Lanham MD: Lexington Books. 
Ressler, Robert W., Elizabeth Ackert, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2020. 
"Race/ethnicity, human capital, and the selection of young children into early childhood education. "
Social Science Research 85: 102364. 
Deschenes, O (with J. Weill, M. Springborn, and M. Stigler). 2020. 
"Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19 Emergency Declarations Strongly Differentiated by Income. "
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  202009412. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009412117
Deschenes, O (with H. Wang, S. Wang, and P. Zhang). 2020. 
"The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China. "
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 145,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102461
Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Ressler, Arya Ansari, and Robert Crosnoe. 2020. 
"Community Contexts, Supply of Early Childhood Programs, and Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment among Mexican- Origin Children."
Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 52(A):4-14. 
Tuholske, C., Andam, K., Blekking, J., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. 2020.
"Comparing measures of urban food security in Accra, Ghana. "
Food Security, 1-15.
Zimmer, A., Guido, Z., Tuholske, C., Pakalniskis, A., Lopus, S., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. 2020. 
"Dynamics of population growth in secondary cities across southern Africa. "
Landscape Ecology, 1-16.
Blekking, J., Waldman, K., Tuholske, C., & Evans, T. 2020. 
"Formal/informal employment and urban food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. "
Applied Geography, 114, 102131.
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. 
Research Themes:
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.
A.T. Murray. 2020. 
"Planning for classroom physical distancing to minimize the threat of COVID-19 disease spread. "
PLoS ONE 15, e0243345 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243345).
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. 
Research Themes:
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
Research Themes:
Charles, Maria. 2020. 
"Gender Attitudes in Africa: Liberal Egalitarianism across 34 Countries. "
Social Forces
Research Themes:
Lee J, Cassels S. 2020. 
"Immigrant generational differences in social support and sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men in Seattle, Washington. "
AIDS Education and Prevention.
Cassels S. 2020. 
"Time, population mobility, and HIV transmission. "
The Lancet HIV. ePub Jan 14: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30413-8
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.
Research Themes:
Krell, N. T., et al. 2020. 
"Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya. "
Climate and Development (2020): 1-13.
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.
Research Themes:
A.T. Murray, L. Carvalho, R.L. Church, C. Jones, D. Roberts, J. Xu, K. Zigner and D. Nash. 2020. 
"Coastal vulnerability under extreme weather. "
 Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-020-09357-0).
Sory I. Touré, John R. Weeks, David Lopez-Carr, and Douglas Stow. 2020. 
"Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana"
Demographic Research, Volume 42, Article 20, Pages 589-614.
A.T. Murray, R.L. Church, J. Xu, L. Carvalho, C. Jones and D. Roberts. 2020. 
"Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation. "
Geo Spatial Technology and Smart City Development, edited by Poonam Sharma (Springer).
Kuhn, Peter and Lizi Yu. 2020. 
"How Costly is Turnover? Evidence from Retail. "
 Journal of Labor Economics.
Research Themes:
K. Grace, A.T. Murray and R. Wei. 2020. 
"Improving urban and peri-urban health outcomes through early detection and aid planning. "
Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health, edited by Y. Lu and E. Delmelle, 231-250 (Cham: Springer) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19573-1_12).
John R. Weeks. 2020. 
"Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues, Thirteenth Edition. "
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning
Weeks, John R. Demography is an Inherently Spatial Science, in Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, and Stephen A. Matthews. In press. 
"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography. "
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
Holly Shakya, G. L. Darmstadt, K.M. Barker, John R. Weeks, and Nicholas Christakis. 2020. Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy: a cross-sectional study of 176 villages in rural Honduras. 
"Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy: a cross-sectional study of 176 villages in rural Honduras. "
Journal of Global Health, 10(1).
Holly Shakya, John R. Weeks, Sneha Challa, Paul Fleming, Beniamino Cislaghi, Lotus McDougal, Sabrina Boyce,  Anita Raj, and Jay Silverman. 2020. 
"Spatial analysis of individual and village level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at first marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger."
BMC Public Health
J. Xu and A.T. Murray. 2020. 
"Spatial variability in retail gasoline markets. "
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science 3, 581-603 (DOI: 10.1007/s41685-019-00104-z).
A.T. Murray. 2020. 
"Sustainability and resilience through micro-scale decisions for change. "
Development Studies in Regional Science: In Honor of Kingsley E Haynes, edited by Z. Chen, W. Bowen and D. Whittington, 43-57 (Berlin: Springer) (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1435-7_4).
Budge, Jason and Maria Charles. 2020. 
"Trends in Support for Stay-at-Home Mothering. "
Contexts 19(2): 71-73.
Research Themes:
S. Burtner and A.T. Murray. 2020. 
"Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity. "
Handbook of Cities and Networks, edited by C. Rozenblat and Z. Neal (Edward Elgar Publishers).
Cassels S, Meltzer D, Loustalot C, Ragsdale A, Shoptaw S, Gorbach PM. 2020.
"Geographic mobility, place attachment, and the changing geography of sex among African American and Latinx MSM who use substances in Los Angeles. "
Journal of Urban Health 97(5):609-622.
Lawson DW, Lynes R, Morris A & Schaffnit SB. 2020. 
"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "
PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346. 
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. 
Lundberg, Shelly. 2020. 
"Women in the economics profession: Challenges and opportunities along the pipeline. "
Introduction to Women in Economics, CEPR Press. 
Research Themes:
Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, Justin Sydnor, and Dmitry Taubinsky). 2018.
"The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise."
Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 62: 95-104. (Also NBER Working Paper #24959).
Research Themes:
Heather Royer (With Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, and Anya Samek). Forthcoming.
"When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice"
AEJ: Economic Policy (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
Research Themes:
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Research Themes:
Charness, Gary B. (with Tibor Neugebauer). 2019. 
"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage in Experimental Asset Markets"
Journal of Finance, 493-529) 
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary B. (with Dan Levin and David Schmeidler). 2019. 
"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information.” "
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98. 
Research Themes:
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. 
Dover, T. L., Major, B., & Glace, A. M. 2019. 
"Discrimination, health, and the costs and benefits of believing in system fairness. "
Health Psychology, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/hea0000841. 
Research Themes:
Dover, T. L., Hunger, J. M. & Major, B. 2019.
"Health consequences of prejudice and discrimination. "
In K. Sweeny & M. Robins (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. 
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
Research Themes:
Manuela Angelucci, Silvia Prina, Heather Royer, and Anya Samek. 2019.
"Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice. "
AEJ: Economic Policy 11 (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary B. (with Michael Naef and Alessandro Sontuoso). 2019. 
"Opportunistic Conformism."
Journal of Economic Theory 100-134) 
Research Themes:
McCleary-Gaddy, A. T., Miller, C. T., Grover, K. W., Hodge, J. J., & Major, B. 2019. 
"Weight stigma and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis reactivity in individuals who are overweight. "
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53. (4), 392-398. doi: 10.1093/abm/kay042. 
Research Themes:
Sayre, M. K., Pike, I. L., & Raichlen, D. A. 2019. 
"High levels of objectively measured physical activity across adolescence and adulthood among the Pokot pastoralists of Kenya. "
American Journal of Human Biology, 31(1), e23205.
Charness, Gary (with Dan Levin and David Schmeidler)
"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information"
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary, with Celia Blanco, Lara Ezquerra, and Ismael Rodriguez-Lara. Forthcoming. 
"Cheating and Money Manipulation. "
Experimental Economics.
Research Themes:
Cassels S, Jenness SM, Biney AAE. 2019. 
"Coital frequency and male concurrent partnerships during pregnancy and postpartum in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. "
AIDS and Behavior: 23(6): 1508-1517
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.
Thébaud, Sarah, Sabino Kornrich and Leah Ruppanner. 2019. 
"Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms. "
Sociological Methods and Research
Research Themes:
AS Anderson, B Trumble, C Hove, TS Kraft, H Kaplan, M Gurven, AD Blackwell. 2019.
"Old Friends and Friendly Fire: Potential Costs of Fetal Tolerance among Tropical Horticulturalists in a Hookworm-Endemic Environment"
American Journal of Human Biology. DOI:10.1002/ajhb.23337   
Thébaud, Sarah and Laura Halcomb. 2019. 
"One Step Forward? Advances and Setbacks on the Path Toward Gender Equality in Families and Work. "
Sociology Compass.  
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary (with Michael Naef and Alessandro Sontuoso
"Opportunistic Conformism"
Journal of Economic Theory, 100-134. 
Research Themes:
Cristia, A., Dupoux, E., Gurven, M., Stieglitz, J. 2019.
"Child-directed speech is infrequent in a forager-farmer population: a time allocation study."
Child Development 90(3):.759-773.
Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Towner, M., Baldini, R., Beheim, B., Colleran, H., Gurven, M., Kramer, K., Mattison, S., Nolin, D., Scelza, B., Schniter, E., Sear, R., Shenk, M., Voland, E. 2019. 
"Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374. http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0076
Martin, M., Blackwell, A., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2019.
"Differences in Tsimane children's growth outcomes and associated determinants as estimated by WHO standards vs. within-population references. "
PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214965.  
Gurven, M., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Cummings, D., Blackwell, A., Kaplan, H., Yetish, G., Pontzer, H. 2019. 
"Methodological differences cannot explain associations between health, anthropometrics and excess RMR. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169:197-198.
Scelza, B.A., Prall, S.P., Blumenfield, T., Crittenden, A.N., Gurven, M., Kline, M., Koster, J., Kushnick, G., Mattison, S.M., Pillsworth, E., Shenk, M., Starkweather, K., Stieglitz, J., Sum, C., Yamaguchi, K., McElreath, R. 2019.
"Patterns of paternal investment explain cross-cultural variance in jealous response. "
Nature Human Behaviour. (doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0654-y).  
Gurven, M., Davison, R. 2019. 
"Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox"
 PNAS 201902406. +doi:10.1073/pnas.1902406116 + SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION  
Bashi Treitler, Vilna and Aldon Morris. 2019. 
"The Racial State of the Union: Racial Inequality and Struggle in the USA. "
The journal Caderno CRH: (Journal of the Center for Human Resources); in a special issue on “Social inequalities: new agenda for contemporary social theory”, n. 85.
Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., HORUS, Finch, C., Li, D., Budoff, M., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2019. 
"Computed tomography shows high fracture prevalence among physically active forager-horticulturalists with high fertility. "
eLife 8:e48607.
Smaldino, P., Lukaszewski, A., von Rueden, C., Gurven, M. 2019. 
"Niche diversity can explain cultural differences in personality structure. "
Nature Human Behaviour doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0730-3.
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Soubhana, A., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Gaulin, S.J.C. 2019. 
"Testosterone is positively and estradiol negatively associated with mucosal immunity in Amazonian adolescents. "
American Journal of Human Biology 31:e23284.
von Rueden, C., Redhead, D., O’Gorman, R., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2019. 
"The dynamics of men’s cooperation and social status in a small-scale society. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20191367. 
Paola Bacchetta, Sunaina Maira, and Howard Winant, editors. 2019. 
"Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, Decoloniality. "
New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge. 
Wikle, Jocelyn S., Elizabeth Ackert, and Alexander C. Jensen. 2019. 
"Companionship patterns and emotional states during social interactions for adolescents with and without siblings. "
Journal of Youth and Adolescence 48, no. 11: 2190-2206. 
Research Themes:
Ackert, Elizabeth, Amy Spring, Kyle Crowder, and Scott J. South. 2019. 
"Kin location and racial disparities in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods. "
Social science research 84: 102346. 
Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Crosnoe, and Tama Leventhal. 2019. 
"New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children. "
Demography 56, no. 5: 1607-1634.  
Deschenes, O, (with W. Botzen and M. Sanders). 2019. 
"The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Review of Models and Empirical Studies. "
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 13, pp. 167–188 https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rez004
Verdin, A., Chris Funk, C., Peterson, P., Landsfeld, M., Tuholske, C., & Grace, K. 2019. 
"Development and validation of the CHIRTS-daily quasi-global high-resolution daily temperature data set. "
Scientific Data. 
Lawson DW & Gibson MA. 2019. 
"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.
Hassan A, Schaffnit SB, Sear R, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019. 
"Fathers favour sons, mothers don’t discriminate: sex-biased parental care in north-western Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1, e13.
Lawson DW. 2019. 
"Parental care."
In Koster J, Scelza B, Shenk M (Eds). Human Behavioral Ecology.
Nella Van Dyke and Verta Taylor. 2019. 
"Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements. "
Pp. 482-498 in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2nd Edition, edited by David Snow, Sarah Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi and Holly McCammon. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Research Themes:
Hedges S, Sear R, Todd J, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019. 
"Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. "
Demographic Research.
Schaffnit SB. Hassan A, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019. 
"Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain ‘child marriage’ in northwestern Tanzania. "
Nature Human Behaviour. 3:346-353. 
Hedges S, Lawson DW, Todd J, Urassa M & Sear R. 2019.
"Sharing the load: the influence of co-resident children on the allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania. "
Demography. 
Tuholske, C., Caylor, K., Evans, T., & Avery, R. 2019. 
"Variability in urban population distributions across Africa."
Environmental Research Letters.    
Schaffnit SB, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019. 
"‘Child marriage’ in context: Exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania. "
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27:1 
Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor. 2019.  
"Drag Queens and Kings."
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft. New York: Wiley Blackwell.
Research Themes:
Verta Taylor. 2019. 
"Tactical Repertoires of Contention. "
Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft. New York:  Wiley Blackwell.
Research Themes:
Speroni, Cecilia, Alison Wellington, Paul Burkander, Hanley Chiang, Mariesa Herrmann, and Kristin Hallgren. Forthcoming. 
"Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation. "
Journal of Labor Economics.
Research Themes:
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2019.
"Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. "
New York: Oxford University Press.
Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. 2019. 
"Racial Intermarriage in the Americas."
Sociological Science 6: 293-320.
X Holly Shakya, John R. Weeks, and Nicholas Christakis. 2019. 
"Do Village-Level Normative and Network Factors Help Explain Spatial Variability in Adolescent Childbearing in Rural Honduras? "
Social Science and Medicine--Population Health 9 (100371).  
A.T. Murray and T.H. Grubesic. 2019. 
"Evolving regional analytics in a rural world. "
International Regional Science Review 42, 374-399 (DOI: 10.1177/0160017619827071).
J. Yao, X. Zhang and A.T. Murray. 2019. 
"Location optimization of urban fire stations: accessibility and service coverage. "
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, 184-190 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.10.006).
X Yu Hsin Tsai, Douglas A. Stow, David Lopez-Carr, John R. Weeks, Keith C. Clarke, and Foster Mensah, 2019. 
"Monitoring Forest Cover Change Within Different Reserve Types in Southern Ghana."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, and Justin Sydnor). 2019.
"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
Management Science (Also NBER Working Paper #23188).
Research Themes:
Shelly Lundberg (with Jenna Stearns). 2019.
"Women in Economics: Stalled Progress"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2019, 33(1): 3-22
Research Themes: