Research
Publications
"Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty and poor child health in northern Tanzania."
American Journal of Human Biology 29 e22938.
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"Fertility and Urban Context: A Case Study from Ghana, West Africa, Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS."
Population, Space and Place, DOI: 10.1002/psp.2062.
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"Foreword: New Racial Studies, Race, and Empire."
Paola Bacchetta & Sunaina Maira, eds.
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"Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?"
European Economic Review, 109: 42-62.
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"Gender in Engineering Departments: Are there Gender Differences in Interruptions of Academic Job Talks?"
Social Sciences 6(1), 29.
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"Geographic mobility and potential bridging for sexually transmitted infections in Agbogbloshie, Ghana."
Social Science & Medicine 184: 27-39. (PMCID: PMC5525941)
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"Geographical and individual determinants of rural out-migration to a tropical forest protected area: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala."
European Journal of Geography. (8)2. http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/articles/5.Geographical%20and%20indiv
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"GIS in regional research."
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2: Methodological Advance, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Science, edited by R. Jackson and P. Shaeffer, 169-180 (Springer).
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"Global Hunger."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.
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"Growth references for Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 162(3) 441-461. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23128.
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"Horticultural activity predicts later localized limb status in a contemporary preindustrial population."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 163(3):425-436. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Human grooming in comparative perspective: using phylogenetic analyses to test hygienic, thermoregulatory and social functions among six small-scale societies."
American Journal of Physical.
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"Hunger: poverty, inequality, and vulnerability."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.
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"Improving health information systems in Guatemala using weighted correlation network analysis."
GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings. http://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857353
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"Introduction."
In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism, edited by Holly J. McCammon, Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel Einwohner. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies."
Edited Volume.
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"Lifting the Burden: State Care of the Elderly and the Labor Supply of Adult Children."
Journal of Human Resources. 52(1): 247-271.
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"Linkages among Population, Food Production, and the Environment at Multiple Scales."
Journal of International & Global Studies, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-17. 17p.
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"Location analysis: developments on the horizon."
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2: Methodological Advance, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Science, edited by R. Jackson and P. Shaeffer, 193-208 (Springer).
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"Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone levels in rural Gambian men."
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 3:221-240.
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"Mortality, senescence and life span. In: Chimpanzees and Human Evolution."
(Edited by M. Muller, R. Wrangham, D. Pilbeam). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Press. Pp. 181-216.
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"Multiple Measures of Ethnoracial Classification in Latin America."
Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(13): (Special Issue on International Perspectives on the Measurement of Race and Ethnicity).
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"Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns."
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/372/1722/20160127
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"Optimizing green space locations to reduce daytime and nighttime urban heat island effects in Phoenix, Arizona."
Landscape and Urban Planning 165, 162-171 (DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.04.009).
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"Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Synergies? Evidence from Africa and Asia."
The European Journal of Geography.
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"Preserving Rank as a Social Norm."
Nature Human Behaviour, 1(7), Article 0137, July, 2017.
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"Real-Time Evolution of Zika Virus Disease Outbreak, Roatán, Honduras."
Emerging Infectious Disease-CDC, 23(8).
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"Recent Trends in Internal and International Mexican Migration: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey, edited by Universidad Iberoamericana."
Forthcoming.
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"Regional analytics."
Annals of Regional Science 59, 1-13 (DOI: 10.1007/s00168-017-0825-6).
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"Regional perspectives on public health."
Regional Research Frontiers- Vol. 1: Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration, edited by R. Jackson and P. Shaeffer, 161-174 (Springer).
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"Renewable Dismissal Barriers, Job Security, and Long-term Investment."
European Economic Review, 95, June, 2017, 195-214.
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"Self Confidence and Strategic Behavior."
Experimental Economics.
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"Skin Color and Colorism: Global Research, Concepts, and Measurement."
Annual Review of Sociology 43(1):405-24.
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"Spatial analysis."
International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, edited by D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu and R.A. Marston (New York: John Wiley & Sons) (DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0505).
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"Special Issue on Migration and Health."
International Migration.
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"The consequences of the criminal justice pipeline on Black and Latino masculinity."
(Reprint) In Routledge Major Works Collection: Critical Criminology
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"The Effects of Gendered Occupational Roles on Men's and Women's Workplace Authority: Evidence from Microfinance."
American Sociological Review 82(3):542-567.
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"The imperial county community air monitoring network: A model for community-based environmental monitoring for public health action."
Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(7). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1772
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"The Oxford Handbook of U. S. Women's Social Movement Activism."
Oxford University Press.
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"The physiological constellation of deprivation: immunological strategies and health outcomes (Commentary on: Pepper and Nettle, 'The Behavioural Constellation of Deprivation: Causes and Consequences')."
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press.
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"The Tsimane Health and Life History Project (THLHP): Integrating anthropology and biomedicine. Evolutionary Anthropology."
26(2) 54-73. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21515.
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"Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans."
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(3). October.
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"Thirty Years of Land Use/Cover Change in the Caribbean: Assessing the Relationship between Urbanization and Mangrove Loss in Roatán, Honduras"
Applied Geography, 88, 84-93.
"Toxicoanthropology: phthalate exposure in relation to market access in a remote forager-horticultural population."
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 220(5):799-809.
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"Traffic-Related Air Pollution and All-Cause Mortality during Tuberculosis Treatment in California."
Environmental Health Perspectives,125(9). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1699
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"Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment."
Building and Environment 115, 269-280.
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"Venus, Mars, and Math: Gender, Societal Affluence and Eighth Graders' Aspirations for STEM"
SOCIUS3:1-16.
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"Vulnerability and Resilience: Health, Health Care, and Health Research of Migrants."
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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"Water, dams, and prawns: novel ecological solutions for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis."
http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31132-7/f… The Lancet, 389, p.S20.
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"What explains personality covariation? A test of the socioecological complexity hypothesis."
Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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"When Beauty Doesn't Pay: Gender and Beauty Biases among Entrepreneurs in a Peer-to-peer Loan Market."
Social Forces 95(4): 1371-1398.
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"Why household inefficiency? An experimental approach to assess spousal resource distribution preferences in a subsistence population undergoing socioeconomic change."
Evolution and Human Behavior 38(1):71-81. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Why We Yearn for the Simple Life. "The Sexual Allure of Simplicity.""
Published online: http://www.sapiens.org/debate/sex-simplicity/
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"Women in LGBT Movements."
In The Oxford Handbook of U. S. Women's Social Movement Activism, edited by Holly J. McCammon, Verta Taylor, Jo Reger, and Rachel Einwohner. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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"World-Historical Du Bois."
Ethnic and Racial Studies Review, Vol. 40, no. 3.
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"A global systematic review of Chagas disease prevalence among migrants."
Acta Tropica.
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"A parallel algorithm for coverage optimization on multi-core architectures."
International Journal of Geographical Information Science 30, 432-450.
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"A pattern-based definition of urban context using remote sensing and GIS."
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 183: 250-264
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"Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro)"
Journal of Political Economy, February 2016, Volume 124, Number 1, pp. 105-159
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"An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease."
Genome Biology 17:171. DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-1030-0.
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"An identity-based model of discrimination and health behaviors: Implications for Health Disparities."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
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"An object-based temporal inversion approach to urban land use change analysis."
Remote Sensing Letters.
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"Anthropogenic impacts on Roatán, Honduras: 30 Years of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015).
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"Assessing raster GIS approximation for Euclidean shortest path routing."
Transactions in GIS 20, 570-584.
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"Assessing the impacts of traditional school year calendar start dates."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
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"Associations between men's testosterone and immune function in a pathogenically stressed forager-horticultural population."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology..
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"Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound indicates reduced bone mineral status among physically active adult forager-horticulturalists."
J. of Bone and Mineral Research 31(3): 663-671.
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"Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in evolutionary perspective: a critical role for helminths?"
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 338-357. doi:10.1093/emph/eow028.
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"Children and Climate Change: Introducing the Issue (with J. Currie)."
Future of Children, Spring 2016, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 3-9
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"Choosing and Not Choosing with and without Communication: Experimental Results on Contract Design and Selection."
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 172, March, 2016, 142-157)
"Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery."
Remote Sensing Environment.
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"Climate-Related Child Undernutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Health Surveys, NDVI, and Precipitation Data."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 9 (6): 2830 - 2835.
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"Comparative approaches for assessing access to alcohol outlets: exploring the utility of a gravity potential approach."
Population Health Metrics 14, 25 (DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0097-x).
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"Comprehension and Risk Elicitation in the Field: Evidence from Rural Senegal."
Review of Behavioral Economics, 3, July, 2016, 145-171
"Conflict or congruence? Maternal and infant-centric factors associated with shorter exclusive breastfeeding durations among the Tsimane."
Social Science & Medicine 170:9-16.
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"Costs of reproduction and maternal depletion in a high fertility and mortality population."
Nature Scientific Reports 6:30056.
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"Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements."
Annual Review of Sociology 42:165-183.
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"Demographics, Health Drivers & Impacts on Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana."
Stephen J. Walsh, editor, Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits (Oxford: Elsevier).
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"Determining the Type and Starting Time of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana Based on Discrete Analysis of Dense Landsat Image Time Series."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), .
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"Diversity policies don't make organizations fairer and they threaten white men."
Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2016/01/diversity-policies-dont-help-women-or-minorities...
"Diversity Structures, Status, and System-Justifying Beliefs: When Diversity Initiatives Backfire."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
"Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System"
IZA Journal of Labor Economics. 2015, 4:22 DOI: 10.1186/s40172-015-0038-0
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"Effectiveness of Combination Packages for HIV-1 Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa Depends on Partnership Network Structure: A Mathematical Modeling Study."
Sexually Transmitted Infections. Published Online First: 9 June 2016.
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"Equity in regional access to renal dialysis in Brazil."
Regional Science Policy & Practice 8, 27-44.
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"Essential Air Service in the United States: exploring strategies to enhance spatial and operational efficiencies."
International Regional Science Review 39, 108-130.
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"Estimating the impact of universal antiretroviral therapy for HIV serodiscordant couples through home HIV testing: Insights from mathematical models."
JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 19:20864. (PMCID: PMC4865806).
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"Ethnic dimensions of Guatemala's stalled transition: A parity- specific analysis of Ladino and indigenous fertility regimes."
Demography 53(1), 117-138.
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"Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970."
Journal of Political Economy.
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"Experimental Methods: Pay one or Pay All."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 141-150.
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"Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is not associated with adolescent testosterone levels."
PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153083. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153083.
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"Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing."
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102.
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"Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation."
American Economic Review.
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"Feeding the World: Population, Resources and Food"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards Sustainable Food Systems, edited by Colin Sage. London: Routledge.
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"Gender Inequality in Education."
In Nancy Naples, ed. Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.
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"Geographical mobility and heterogeneity of the HIV epidemic."
Published online first July 8 2016. The Lancet HIV.
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"Global Frontiers in Social Control and Deviance."
Under Contract with Springer Press.
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"High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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"Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists."
Annals of Human Biology 43(4):382-396.
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"In Countries with Little Work-Family Support, Many Women Opt for Self-Employment."
London School of Economics Business Review. January 12.
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"Inter-regional pattern of urbanization in southern Ghana in the first decade of the new millennium."
Journal of Applied Geography.
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