Research
Publications
"Reply to Rieger and Wagner: Context matters when studying purportedly harmful cultural practices."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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"Localization and industry clustering econometrics: An assessment of Gibbs models for spatial point processes."
Journal of Regional Science.
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"Response to de Iglesia et al. Response to de la Iglesia et al."
Current Biology 26:R273-R274. + SUPPLEMENT.
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"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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"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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"Supply and demand explain reciprocal exchange of multiple commodities and individual differences in cooperation in a small-scale society."
Current Biology 26:1-8.
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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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"Family Ruptures, Stress, and the Mental Health of the Next Generation."
American Economic Review.
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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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"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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"Optimization model for the sustainable water resource management of river basins."
Water Resources Management 30, 3247-3264.
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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)
"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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"Obstacle-avoiding shortest path derivation in a multicore computing environment."
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 55, 1-10.
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"Tactics in the Grassroots of the Climate Justice Movement."
Universal Resistance, edited by Charles Derber. Routledge. (book title subject to change).
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"Unequal Hard Times: The Influence of The Great Recession on Gender Bias in Entrepreneurial Investment Markets."
Sociological Science3:1-31.
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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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"Land use as a mediating factor of the Proximate Determinants of Fertility in rural Amazonia."
Population and Environment. 1-26.
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"The Effect of Charitable Giving on Workers’ Performance: Experimental evidence"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 61-74.
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"An object-based temporal inversion approach to urban land use change analysis."
Remote Sensing Letters.
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"Public street lighting service standard assessment and achievement."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 53.
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"Suspicion of motives predicts minorities' responses to positive feedback in interracial interactions."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,62, 75-88. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.007.
"Spatial uncertainty challenges in location modeling with dispersion requirements."
Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems, edited by J.-C. Thill (New York: Springer).
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"Diversity Structures, Status, and System-Justifying Beliefs: When Diversity Initiatives Backfire."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
"Unpacking the psychological weight of weight stigma: A rejection-expectation pathway."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63,69-76. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.003.
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"Pigmentocracies: Skin Color, Census Ethnoracial Categories and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 39-58.
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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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"Perceived discrimination and poor health: Accounting for self-blame complicates a well-established relationship."
Social Science and Medicine.
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"Understanding variation in human fertility: What can we learn from evolutionary demography?"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150144.
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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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"The obesity stigma asymmetry model: The indirect and divergent effects of blame and changeability beliefs on anti-fat prejudice."
Stigma and Health.
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"Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania."
Evolution & Human Behavior 37:142-151.
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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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"Risk buffering and resource access shape valuation of out-group and in-group strangers."
Nature Scientific Reports.
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"Salivary microbiomes of indigenous Tsimane mothers and infants are distinct despite frequent premastication."
PeerJ 4:e2660; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2660.
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"Gender Inequality in Education."
In Nancy Naples, ed. Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.
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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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"Reciprocal exchange patterned by market forces helps explain cooperation in a small-scale society."
Current Biology 26:1-8. + SUPPLEMENT.
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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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"Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment."
PNAS 113(17): 4688-4693.
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"Time from HIV diagnosis to viral load suppression: 2007-2013."
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 43(1): 34-40. (PMCID: PMC4902572).
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"Spatial uncertainty in cluster detection."
Spatial Information Research 24, 181-189.
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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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"Geographical mobility and heterogeneity of the HIV epidemic."
Published online first July 8 2016. The Lancet HIV.
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"Assessing raster GIS approximation for Euclidean shortest path routing."
Transactions in GIS 20, 570-584.
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"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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"Reproductive fat. "
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
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"Spatiotemporal Variation in the Relationship Between Landscape Simplification and Insecticide Use."
Ecological Applications
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"Exploring HIV prevalence estimates using fine-scale population estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-8.
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"Does market integration buffer risk, erode traditional sharing practices and increase inequality? A test among Bolivian forager-farmers."
Human Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10745-015-9764-y
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"What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?"
Briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families. November 5.
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"Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint."
American Sociological Review.
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"Using Spatial, Hierarchical, and Econometric Models in Urban Data-poor Areas to Examine Food Security."
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) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-8.
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"The Train Has Left the Station: Latino Aging in the New South."
Chapter 4 in W.A. Vega, K.S. Markides, J.L. Angel, and F.M. Torres-Gil, F.M., editors, Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas (Dordrecht: Springer).
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"The Benefits to a Paid Family Leave Law that Nobody is Talking About."
The Huffingtion Post. February 12. Reprinted in The Contra Costa Times and The Oakland Tribune. Feb. 14.
"Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice"
The Feminist Wire, April 27
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"Structure of fisher (Martes pennanti) habitat in a managed forest in an interior Northern California coast range."
Forest Science 61(3), 481-493.
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"COMMENT: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature. 517: 265-267 (15 January 2015) * co-first authors
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"New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements: Collective Identity, Multi-institutional Politics, and Emotions."
Pp. 108-130 in The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, edited by Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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"Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation."
Social Forces 94: 61-86.
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"From the Lab to the Real World."
Science, 30 October, 2015, 512-513.
"Infection with helminths affects fecundity and age of first pregnancy in human females, in submission."
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"Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE."
Water Resour. Res.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2015WR017349.
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"Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004 (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro)."
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2015, Volume 105, Number 5, pp. 247-251
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"Does unfairness feel different if it can be linked to group membership? Cognitive, affective, behavioral and physiological implications of discrimination and unfairness."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 96-103.
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"Exploring HIV prevalence estimates using fine-scale population estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts. Plurimondi."
An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-8.
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"Helminth infection, fecundity and age of first pregnancy in women."
Science 350: 970-972.
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"Insidious procedures: Diversity awards legitimize unfair organizational procedures."
Social Justice Research, 28, 169-186. doi: 10.1007/s11211-015-0240-z
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"Merit Pay and Wage Compression with Productivity Differences and Uncertainty."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117, September, 2015, 233-247.
"Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies."
Current Biology 25:1-7.
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"Gender Segregation in Higher Education"
In Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn, eds. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.
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"Reduced functional status and social conflict increase risk of depression in adulthood among modernizing Amazonian forager-farmers."
Journals of Gerontology Social Sciences 70(6):948-956. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbu080.
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"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
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"Moving up the Energy Ladder: The Effect of an Increase in Economic Well-being on the Fuel Consumption Choices of the Poor in India, with Rema Hanna."
American Economic Review P&P, 105.5: 242-246.
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"Estimating PMTCT's Impact on Heterosexual HIV Transmission: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis."
PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134271. (PMCID: PMC4532442).
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"What are the determinants of immigrant health?: Introduction to Special Issue on Migration and Health."
Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions. Issue 13, Pages 1-4.
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"The low male voice is a costly signal of phenotypic quality among Bolivian adolescents."
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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"Race and Deviance: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys."
In Goode, Erich Wiley Handbook on Deviance.
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"Why Has Iran's Family Planning Policy Been So Successful? Political, Demographic, Socio-economic, and Cultural-Geographical Underpinnings of a Dramatic Fertility Transition."
Rural Studies.(2)38: 111-128.
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"Forager skill ontogeny among Tsimane Amerindians."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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"Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography."
City and Community.
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"Evolutionary psychology."
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
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"Land Cover/Land Use Change analysis using multi-spatial resolution data and object-based image analysis."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-5.
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"Mapping slums using spatial features in Accra, Ghana."
Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2015: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120494
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"How the Myth of 'Lone Warrior' Entrepreneur Penalizes Women."
The Conversation. March 6.
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"Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation than Men?"
Economic Journal 125 (582) (February 2015) Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12122.
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"Adaptive personality calibration among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists: effects of embodied capital on prosocial traits."
Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv051
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"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography."
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
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"Leaning in at Work and at Home: Why Workplace Policies Matter."
The Conversation. January 29.
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"Attributions to discrimination: Antecedents and Consequences."
In T.D. Nelson (Ed.). Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.
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"Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company."
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(3): 51-84.
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"Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty of Population Estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts, Plurimondi."
An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. 8(17): 215-221.
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"Beneath the Sequins: Drag Identity in the LGBT Community."
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Edited by James D. Wright and Don Barrett. Oxford: Elsevier.
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"Challenging the inevitability of age-related prostate enlargement: low levels of benign hyperplasia among Bolivian Amerindians."
Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.
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"Fair Care? How Ecuadorian Women Negotiate Childcare in Fair Trade Flower Production."
Women's Studies International Forum57:30-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.04.005
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"Depression as sickness behavior? A test of the host defense hypothesis in a high pathogen population, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity."
in press, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.05.008
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"Is There a Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission of Care Work."
Sociological Science. 2:527-43.
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