Research

Publications

Charness, Gary, with Tibor Neugebauer. Forthcoming. 
"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage Experimental Asset Markets."
Journal of Finance.
Research Themes:
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.
Charness, Gary, with Daniela Grieco. 2019.
"Creativity and Financial Incentives."
Journal of the European Economic Association. 
Research Themes:
Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Leila J. Rupp. 2019.
"Feminist Frontiers."
10th edition. New York: Roman Littlefield.
Research Themes:
Krell, Natasha. 2018.
"Innovations in mobile phone services for agriculture decision-making in Kenya."
Gurven, M. 2018.
"Broadening horizons: sample diversity and socioecological theory are essential to the future of psychological science. "
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(45):11420-11427 A
Charness, Gary, with Chun-Lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Jaimie Lien, and Cong Liu
"Endogenous reward promotes cooperation."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(40), 9968-9973 
Research Themes:
Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Food sharing models. "
International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. Callan (Ed.) doi:10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1655
Gurven, M. 2018.
"Review of The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life. "
Human Nature 29(4):468-474.
Thébaud, Sarah and Maria Charles. 2018. 
"Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM."
 Social Sciences 7(7):1-19.
Research Themes:
Hopp, Frederic R., Cornell., Devin J., Fisher, Jacob T., Huskey, Richard, Weber, René. 2018. 
"The Moral Foundations Dictionary for News (MFD-N): A Crowd-Sourced Moral Foundations Dictionary for the Automated Analysis of News Corpora. "
Communications Association Annual Meeting.
Klein, L.D., Huang, J., Quinn, E.A., Martin, M., Breakey, A., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Valeggia, C., Jasienska, G., Scelza, B., Lebrilla, C., Hinde, K. 2018
"Variation among populations in the immune protein composition of mother’s milk reflects subsistence pattern. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2018(1): 230-245.
Venkataraman, V.V., Yegian, A.K., Wallace, I.J., Holowka, N., Tacey, I., Gurven, M., Kraft, T.S.† 2018. 
"Locomotor constraints favour the evolution of the human pygmy phenotype in tropical rainforests. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20181492.
Kraft, T.†, Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Martin, M., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Nutrition transition in two lowland Bolivian subsistence populations."
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 108(6):1183-1195. 
Tuholske, C., Andam, K. S., Blekking, J., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. 2018. 
"Measures and Determinants of Urban Food Security: Evidence from Accra, Ghana. "
(Vol. 50). Intl Food Policy Res Inst.
Lawson DW & Gibson MA. (2018)
"Understanding ‘Harmful Cultural Practices.’ "
Anthropology News 59: 3; e219-e222.
Delgado Helleseter, Miguel, Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen. 2018. 
"The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Preferences: Evidence from Four Job Boards. "
Journal of Human Resources.
Research Themes:
Panlasigui, S., Rico-Straffon, J., Pfaff, A., Swenson, J., & Loucks, C. 2018
"Impacts of certification, uncertified concessions, and protected areas on forest loss in Cameroon, 2000 to 2013."
Biological conservation, 227, 160-166.
S. Wang, S. Gao, X. Feng, A.T. Murray and M. Zeng. 2018. 
"A context-based geoprocessing framework for optimizing meetup location of multiple moving objects along road networks."
International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 32, 1368-1390 (DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1431838).
Luo W, Gao P, Cassels S. 2018. 
"A large-scale location-based social network to understanding the impact of human geo-social interaction patterns on vaccination strategies in an urbanized area."
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.06.008
Byrne, Janice, Salma Fattoum and Sarah Thébaud. 2018.
"A Suitable Boy? Gendered Roles and Hierarchies in Family Business Succession"
European Management Review. 
Research Themes:
L. Conrow, A.T. Murray and H.A. Fischer. 2018. 
"An optimization approach for equitable bicycle share station siting."
Journal of Transport Geography, 69, 163-170 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.023).
Gurven MD, Finch CE, Wann LS. 2018.
"Are intestinal worms nature's anti-atherosclerosis vaccine?"
European Heart Journal 2018; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy129
M Carrera, H Royer, M Stehr, J Sydnor. 2018. 
"Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? Experimental evidence with new gym members."
Journal of Health Economics 58, 202-214.
Research Themes:
Costa, M.E., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M.D. 2018.
"Child nutritional status among births exceeding ideal family size in a high fertility population."
Maternal & Child Nutrition e12625.
Wong, M., Bejarano, E., Carvlin, G., Fellows, K., King, G., Lugo, H., Jerrett, M., Meltzer D., Northcross, A., Olmedo, L., Seto, E., Wilkie, A., English, P. 2018. 
"Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network."
International journal of environmental research and public health 15.3 (2018): 523.
Saldívar, Emiko, Patricio Solís, and Erika Arenas. 2018. 
"Consideraciones metodológicas para el conteo de la población afromexicana en el Censo 2020."
Conyuntura Demográfica.
Luo W, Katz DA, Hamilton DT, McKenney J, Jenness SM, Goodreau SM, Stekler JD, Rosenberg ES, Sullivan PS, Cassels S. 2018. 
"Development of an agent-based model to investigate the impact of HIV self-testing programs on men who have sex with men in Atlanta and Seattle."
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 4(2):e58. (PMCID: PMC6045793) 
Camlin C, Cassels S, Seeley J. 2018. 
"Editorial: Bringing population mobility into focus to achieve HIV prevention goals."
JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 21(S4):e25136. (PMCID: PMC6053544) 
Weinberger, C. 2018. 
"Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science"
in U.S. Engineering in the Global Economy, edited by Richard Freeman and Hal Salzman, National Bureau of Economic Research/University of Chicago Press. 
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary, with Uri Gneezy and Austin Henderson. 2018. 
"Experimental Methods: Measuring Effort in Economics Experiments"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149, May, 2018, 74-87.
Research Themes:
Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M. In press.
"Food sharing models."
International Encyclopedia of Anthropology.
Charles, Maria and Sarah Thébaud, eds. Forthcoming. 
"Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."
Basel: MDPI Press.
Research Themes:
Anna H. Chatillon, Maria Charles, and Karen Bradley. 2018. 
"Gender Ideology."
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, Pp. 217-226, Barbara J. Risman, Carissa Froyum, and William Scarborough, eds. NY: Springer.
Research Themes:
Howard Winant. Forthcoming 2018. 
"Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality."
New York: Routledge, "A New Racial Studies Book."
Ross, C.T., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Oh, S-Y., Bowles, S., Beheim, B., Bunce, J., Caudell, M., Clark, G., Colleran, H., Cortez, C., Draper, P., Greaves, R., Gurven, M., Headland, T., Headland, J., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Kaplan, H., Koster, J., Kramer, K., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Nolin, D., Quinlan, M., Quinlan, R., Revilla-Minaya, C., Scelza, B., Schacht, R., Shenk, M., Uehara, R., Voland, E., Willführ, K., Winterhalder, B., Ziker, J.  2018.
"Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model."
J. Royal Society Interface 20180035.
Lopez-Carr, D., Kimbombo, R., Ondego, D., Asiimwe, W. 2018. 
"Health of the People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin."
(HOPE-LVB) Evaluation.
van der Linden, D., Dunkel, C., Figueredo, A.J., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Woodley of Menie, M. 2018.
"How universal is the general factor of personality? An analysis of the Big Five in forager farmers of the Bolivian Amazon."
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1-17. 
Schniter, E., Wilcox, N.T., Beheim, B.A., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Information transmission and the oral tradition: evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians."
Evolution and Human Behavior 39:94-105.
Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. Forthcoming. 
"La Integracion de Mexico-Americanos en Estados Unidos."
Nexos (Mexico).
Charness, Garyand Greg DeAngelo. 2018.
"Law and Economics in the Laboratory"
Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics.
Alami, S., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Low perceived control is associated with treatment seeking among high mortality Bolivian forager-farmers."
Social Science and Medicine 200:156-165. + SUPPLEMENT.
Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. In press.
"Marital violence and fertility in a relatively egalitarian high fertility population."
Nature Human Behaviour.
Deschenes, Olivier with A. Barreca, and M. Guldi. 2018.
"Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates."
Demography, Volume 55, pp. 1269-1293
Lundberg, Shelly. 2018. 
"Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital."
Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW: University of Chicago Press.
Research Themes:
Yahirun, Jenjira, and Erika Arenas. 2018. 
"Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico."
Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(4) 975-991.
Cassels S, Camlin C, Seeley. 2018. 
"One Step Ahead: timing and sexual networks in population mobility and HIV prevention and care."
JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 21(S4):e25140. (PMCID: PMC6053478) 
Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Beheim, B., Schwartz, M., Seabright, E., Cummings, D., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Parental hormones are associated with crop loss and family sickness following catastrophic flooding in lowland Bolivia."
Physiology and Behavior 193A:101-107.
Lawson DW, Gibson MA. 2018.
"Polygynous marriage and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the evidence for harm?"
Demographic Research 39: 177-208.
Gibson MA & Lawson DW. 2018.
"Population issues in development. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology."
Wiley.
Telles, Edward. 2018. 
"Race, Latinos and the U.S. Census."
The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science.  677(1): 153 - 164.
Thébaud, Sarah and Maria Charles. 2018. 
"Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM."
Social Sciences 7(7):1-19.
Research Themes:
von Rueden, C., Alami, S., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M.  2018.
"Sex differences in political leadership in an egalitarian society."
Evolution and Human Behavior 39(4):402-411.
Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.
"Sleep variability and nighttime activity regulate sleep patterns among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(3):590-600.
X. Feng and A.T. Murray. 2018. 
"Spatial analytics for enhancing street light coverage of public spaces."
LEUKOS. 14, 13-23 (DOI: 10.1080/15502724.2017.1321486).
Deschenes, Olivier with P. Zhang, K. Meng, and J. Zhang.  2018. 
"Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants."
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 88, Number 3, pp. 1-17.
In Press. Ervin D., Tuholske, C., and D. López-Carr. 2018.
"The Geography of Malnutrition."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield
S Fischer, H Royer, C White. 2018.
"The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortions, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases."
Journal of Public Economics. 167: 43-68.
Research Themes:
Hedges S, Sear R ,Todd J, Urassa M, & Lawson DW. 2018.
"Trade-offs in children's time allocation: Mixed support for embodied capital models of the demographic transition in Tanzania."
Current Anthropology.
Elwell, T.L., Gelcich, S., Gaines, S.D., Lopez-Carr, D. 2018. 
"Using people's perceptions of ecosystem services to guide modeling and management efforts."
Volumes 637-638, Pages 1014-1025.
Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. Forthcoming.
"Varieties of Indigeneity in Latin America."
Social Forces.
Voth-Gaeddert, L. E., Stoker, M., Cornell, D. J., & Oerther, D. B. 2018. 
"What causes childhood stunting among children of San Vicente, Guatemala: Employing complimentary, system-analysis approaches"
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 1-6. 
Pisor, A., Gurven, M. 2018.
"When to diversify, and with whom? Choosing partners among out-group strangers in lowland Bolivia."
Evolution and Human Behavior 39(1):30-39.
Heather McGee Hurwitz and Verta Taylor. 2018.
"Women Occupying Wall Street: Gender Conflict and Feminist Mobilization."
Pp. 334-355. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research Themes:
Brissett, D. I., Tuholske, C., Allen, I. E., Larios, N. S., Mendoza, D. J., Murillo, A. G., & Bloch, E. M. 2018. 
"Zika Virus: Knowledge Assessment of Residents and Health-Care Providers in Roatán, Honduras, following an Outbreak."
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0014
Chua, K. J., Lukaszewski, A. W., Grant, D. M., & Sng, O. 2017.
"Human life history strategies: Calibrated to external or internal cues? "
Evolutionary Psychology, 15(1), 1-16.
Clauss, N., Byrd-Craven, J., & Kennison, S. M., & Chua, K. J. 2017.
"The roles of mothers’ partner satisfaction and mother-infant communication duration in mother-infant adrenocortical attunement."
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1-17.
Rios, V.M. 2017.
"Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Culture of Control."
University of Chicago Press.
John R. Weeks. 2017. 
"Demographic Transition Theory. "
Bryan S. Turner, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing Co.). 
I. Hong, M. Kuby and A.T. Murray. 2017.
"A deviation flow refueling location model for continuous space: a commercial drone delivery system for urban areas."
Food Security, to appear (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0703-1).
Garcia AR, Gurven M, Blackwell AD. 2017.
"A Matter of Perception: Subjective socioeconomic status and cortisol among inhabitants of the island of Utila, Honduras."
American Journal of Human Biology. 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23031.
K. Grace, R. Wei and A.T. Murray. 2017.
"A spatial analytic framework for assessing and improving food aid distribution in developing countries."
Food Security, to appear (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-017-0703-1).
J. Yao and A.T. Murray. 2017.
"A spatial optimization approach for solving a multi-facility location problem with continuously distributed demand."
Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems - Contributions from GIS&T, Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling, edited by J.-C. Thill (Springer's Advances in Spatial Science Series), to appear.
Arenas, Erika. 2017. 
"Abuelos at home: Differential impact on children's education by family structure."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 36-48.
Blekking, J., Tuholske, C., & Evans, T. 2017. 
"Adaptive Governance and Market Heterogeneity: An Institutional Analysis of an Urban Food System in Sub-Saharan Africa."
Sustainability, 9(12), 2191.http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9122191
Hodges-Simeon, CR, Prall, SP, Blackwell, AD, Gurven, MD, Gaulin, SJC. 2017.
"Adrenal maturation, nutritional status and mucosal immunity in Bolivian adolescents."
American Journal of Human Biology, in press.
Deschenes, Olivier with S. Gaines and A. Larsen. 2017. 
"Agricultural Pesticide Use and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California."
NatureCommunications, 8(302), pp. 1-14.
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr. In press.
"An evaluation of serious games and computer-based learning on student outcomes in university level geographic education."
European Journal of Geography. (8)3.
Trumble, BC, Stieglitz, J, Blackwell, AD, Allayee, H, Beheim, B, Finch, CE, Gurven, MD, Kaplan, HS. 2017.
"Apolipoprotein E4 is associated with improved cognitive function in Amazonian forager-horticulturalists with a high parasite burden."
The FASEB Journal. DOI:10.1096/fj.201601084R.
Charness, Gary (with Brianna Halladay). Forthcoming.
"Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics: Cousins but not Twins."
Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy.
Research Themes:
Aukema, Juliann, Narcisa G. Pricope Gregory Husak, and David López-Carr. 2017.
"Biodiversity areas under threat: overlap of climate change and population pressures on the world's biodiversity priorities."
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170615 
Ervin, D., Hamilton, ER,. Lopez-Carr,. D. 2017. 
"Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrant Families in the United States."
International Migration, 55(5), 5-7.
Daniel Ervin, Erin Hamilton, and David López-Carr. 2017 in press.
"Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrants and Migrant Families in the United States."
International Migration.
Lundberg, S (with Aloysius Siow). 2017.
"Canadian Contributions to Family Economics"
Canadian Journal of Economics December 2017, 50(5): 1304-1323.
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary (with Patrick Holder). Forthcoming.
"Charity in the Laboratory: Matching, Competition, and Group Membership."
Management Science.
Research Themes:
Howard Winant. Forthcoming 2017. 
"Charles Mills for and against Black Liberalism."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Review. 
Gurven, M., Fuerstenberg, E., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Davis, H., Kaplan, H. 2017. 
"Cognitive performance across the life course among Bolivian forager-farmers with limited schooling."
Developmental Psychology 53(1):160-176. + SUPPLEMENT
Charness, Gary (with Chetan Dave). 2017.
"Confirmation Bias with Motivated Beliefs."
Games and Economic Behavior, 104, July, 2017, 1-23.
Research Themes:
Jaeggi, A.V., Hooper, P., Caldwell Hooper, A.E., Gurven, M.D., Lancaster, J.B., Kaplan, H.S. 2017. 
"Cooperation between the sexes. In: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution."
(Edited by M. Muller, R. Wrangham, D. Pilbeam). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press. Pp. 548-571.
Kaplan, H., Thompson, R.C., Trumble, B.C., Wann, L.S., Allam, A.H., Beheim, B., Frohlich, B., Sutherland, M.L., Sutherland, J.D., Stieglitz, J., Eid Rodriguez, D., Michalik, D.E., Rowan, C.J., Lombardi, G.P., Bedi, R., Garcia, A.R., Min, J.K., Narula, J., Finch, C.E., Gurven, M., Thomas, G.S. 2017.
"Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: a cross-sectional cohort study."
Lancet389(10080):1730-1739. + SUPPLEMENT
Kuhn, Michael A., Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval. 2017. 
"Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 137 (May 2017): 72-89.
Research Themes:
Deschenes, Olivier with M. Greenstone and J. Shapiro. 2017. 
"Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program."
American Economic Review, Volume 107, Number 10, pp. 2958-89. 
Weeden, Kim A., Sarah Thébaud, and Dafna Gelbgiser. 2017.
"Degrees of Difference: Gender Segregation of US Doctorates by Field and Institutional Prestige."
Sociological Science 4:123-150. 
Research Themes:
Carvlin, G. N., Lugo, H., Olmedo, L., Bejarano, E., Wilkie, A., Meltzer, D., Wong, M., King, G., Northcross, A., Jerret, M., English, PB., Hammond, D., Seto, E. 2017. 
"Development and field validation of a community-engaged particulate matter air quality monitoring network in Imperial, California, USA."
Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association,67(12).https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2017.1369471
Kaplan, H., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Narula, J., Gurven, M., Thomas, G. 2017. 
"Diet, atherosclerosis, and helminthic infection in Tsimane."
Lancet 390:2035.
Charles, Maria and Amber Lopez. 2017. 
"Division of Labor, Gender."
Bryan S. Turner, Chang Kyung-Sup, Cynthia Epstein, Peter Kivisto, William Outhwaite, and J. Michael Ryan, eds. Encyclopedia of Sociological Theory. Wiley-Blackwell.
Research Themes:
Rios, V.M. 2017. 
"Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice."
Annual Review of Sociology. 
Hanley Chiang, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Kristin Hallgren, Paul Burkander, and Wellington, Alison. 2017.
"Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Four Years."
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, December 2017. Available at https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20184004/
Research Themes:
Blackwell, AD. 2017.
"Expanding the insurance hypothesis of obesity with physiological cues (Commentary on Nettle, Andrews, and Bateson, 'Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis')."
Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40, e108 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16001333.
Charness, Gary (with Aleksandr Alekseev and Uri Gneezy). 2017.
"Experimental Methods: When and Why Contextual Instructions May be Important."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 134, February, 2017, 48-59.
Research Themes: