broom center for demography

Von Rueden C, Trumble BC, Blackwell AD, Stieglitz J, Kaplan H, Gurven M (2014).

"Political influence in an egalitarian society associates with lower cortisol but not lower disease burden."

Evolution Medicine and Public Health.

Research Themes:

Alagona, P., Esch, A., Paulson, T. and Marter-Kenyon, J.

"Population and Land Use"

In Erika Zavaleta and Harold Mooney, Eds. Ecosytems of California (Berkeley: University of California Press. [Population-Environment Interactions] 2014.

Research Themes:

de Sherbinin, A., D. López-Carr, S. Cassels, L. Jiang, A. Lopez-Carr, K.M. Miller. Mark McGinley, Editor-in-Chief. 2014.

"Population Environment Theory and Contemporary Applications"

Encyclopedia of the Earth. Washington, D.C., Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. 24pp.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R. 2014.

"Population Theories and Dynamics"

Chapter 5 in Deborah McFarlane, Editor, Global Population and Reproductive Health (Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning).

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

López-Carr, D. and D. Ervin. Forthcoming.

"Population, Poverty, and the Nutrition Transition"

in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards sustainable food systems. Ed. Colin Sage.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R. In press.

"Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues"

Twelfth Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning).

Research Themes:

Taylor, Verta. 2014.

"Preface to Sexual Fields: Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life"

edited by Adam Isaiah Green. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. xiii-xv.

Research Themes:

Rupp, Leila J., Verta Taylor, Shiri Regev-Messalem, Alison Fogarty and Paula England. 2014.

"Queer Women in the Hookup Scene: Beyond the Closet?"

Gender &Society 2 (2): 212-235.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R. Demography is an Inherently Spatial Science, in Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, and Stephen A. Matthews. 2014.

"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory"

In Spatial Demography (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).

Research Themes:

C. Costello, O. Deschênes, A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines.

"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."

Journal of Bioeconomics.

Research Themes:

Katz DA, Cassels S, Stekler JD. 2014.

"Replacing Clinic-based Tests with Home-use Tests May Increase HIV Prevalence among Seattle Men Who Have Sex with Men: Evidence from a Mathematical Model."

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 41(1): 2-9. (PMCID: PMC3955208)

Research Themes:

Katz DA, Cassels S, Stekler JD. 2014.

"Response to the modelling analysis by Katz et al on the impact of replacing clinic-based HIV tests with home testing among men who have sex with men in Seattle: Authors' reply."

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 41(5):320.

Research Themes:

Hopkins, Jason J. 2014.

"Sacralizing Queerness: LGBT Faith Movements and Identity Deployment"

Pp. 159-177 In Queering Religion, Religious Queers, edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon. London: Routledge.

Research Themes:

Friedkin, N.E. Forthcoming.

"Scale-Free Interpersonal Influences on Opinions in Complex Systems."

Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

Eakin, H., H. Perales, K. Appendini, and S. Sweeney (2014).

"Selling Maize in Mexico: The Persistence of Peasant Farming in an Era of Global Markets."

Development and Change. 45(1), 133-155.

Research Themes:

Miner, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Gaulin, S. 2014.

"Sex difference in travel is concentrated in adolescence and tracks reproductive interests."

Proceedings of Royal Society B281, 20141476.

Research Themes:

Rios, V.M. and Galicia, Mario. 2014.

"Smoking Guns or Smoke & Mirrors?: Schools and the Policing of Latino Boys."

Association of Mexican American Educators Journal.

Research Themes:

Friedkin, N.E. Forthcoming.

"Social Justice in Local Systems of Interpersonal Influence"

in Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality, edited by Jane McLeod, Ed Lawler and Michael Schwalbe. Springer.

Engeman, Cassandra.

"Social Movement Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Marches."

Work, Employment and Society. Forthcoming.

Research Themes:

McCarthy, J., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and B. Walker.2014.

"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."

GeoJournal. April, 1-11.

Research Themes:

Charness, Garyand Chun-Lei Yang.

"Starting Small towards Voluntary Formation of Efficient Large Groups in Public Goods Provision."

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 102,June, 2014, 119-132.

Research Themes:

Yeo, R., Pommy, J., & Padilla, E. A.

"Strategic choices vs. maladaptive development"

[Peer commentary on "An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology" by M. Del Giudice]. Psychological Inquiry. 2014.

Research Themes:

Trumble BC, Smith EA, O’Connor KA, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD. (2014).

"Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20132876

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier. 2014.

"Temperature, Human Health, and Adaptation."

A Review of the Empirical Literature, Energy Economics, November 2014, Volume 46, pp. 606-619

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Sex and Gender

Trumble BC, Stieglitz J, Emery Thompson M, Fuerstenberg E, Kaplan H, Gurven M. (2014).

"Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."

American Journal of Human Biology.

Research Themes:

Winant, Howard. Forthcoming.

"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."

Critical Sociology.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Gurven, M., C. von Rueden, J. Stieglitz, H. Kaplan, & D. Eid Rodriguez. 2014.

"The evolutionary fitness of personality traits in a small-scale subsistence population."

Evolution & Human Behavior, 35, 17-25.

Research Themes:

Royer, Heather with Silvia Prina. 2014.

"The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico."

Journal of Health Economics, 37: 232-247.

Research Themes:

Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Chen, C., & Lopez-Carr, D. (2014).

"The importance of place: Unraveling the vulnerability of fisherman livelihoods to the impact of marine protected areas"

Applied Geography.

Research Themes:

Weinberger, C. 2014..

"The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills."

in the Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(5):849-861.

Research Themes:

Kuhn, Peter. 2014.

"The Internet as a Labor Market Matchmaker: How Effective Are the New Electronic Methods of Worker Recruitment and Job Search?"

IZA World of Labor.

Major, B., Hunger, J., Bunyan, D & Miller, C.T. 2014.

"The ironic effects of weight stigma."

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 74-80.

Research Themes:

Gregory Weeks and John R. Weeks. 2014.

"The political demography of U.S.-Cuba relations."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/18/the-polit….

Research Themes:

von Rueden, C. In press.

"The roots and fruits of social status in small-scale human societies."

In J. Cheng, J. Tracy, & C. Anderson (Eds.) The Psychology of Social Status. Springer.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly and Robert Pollak. 2014.

"The Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010"

in Human Capital and History: The American Record, eds. Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

John R. Weeks. 2014.

"The World Can't Support Its Current Population Without Inequality and Poverty."

World Geography: Understanding a Changing World (http://worldgeography2.abc-clio.com/).

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary and Valentin Shmidov. Forthcoming.

"Trust and Reciprocity."

Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics.

Friedkin, N.E. and E.C. Johnsen. 2014.

"Two Steps to Obfuscation"

Social Networks39: 12-13.

Brown, M., K. Grace, K. G. Shively, K. Johnson, M. Carroll. 2014.

"Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data to Assess Human Health and Nutrition Response to Environmental Change."

Population and Environment, 1-25.

Research Themes:

Hunger, J.M. & Major, B. 2014.

"Weight Stigma Mediates the Association between BMI and Psychological and Physical Health."

Health Psychology.

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria, Bridget Harr, Erin Cech and Alexandra Hendley. 2014.

"Who Likes Math Where?"

Gender Differences in Eighth-graders' Attitudes around the World. International Studies in Sociology of Education 24:85-112.

Research Themes:

Ellis, Corrie. 2014.

"Women Working on a Fair Flower Farm in Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study."

In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi:

Population Health and Environment, Sex and Gender

Research Themes:

Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Blackwell, A., Trumble, BC., Gurven, M., and Kaplan, H. (In Press).

"Work to live and live to work: Productivity, transfers, and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age."

In: Weinstein, M., and Lane, M. (eds.). Advances in bio-demography: cross-species comparisons of social environments and social behaviors, and their effects on health and longevity. National Academy Press.

Research Themes:

Hobden, Deborah.

"Your Mall With it All: Luxury Development in a Globalizing African City"

Perspectives in Global Development and Technology. 13: 129-147. 2014.

Research Themes:

Lassek, W. D. and S. J. C. Gaulin. 2013.

"Breast milk DHA content predicts cognitive performance in a sample of 28 nations. "

Maternal & Child Nutrition.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, Battagali, Pierpaolo and Martin Dufwenberg. 2013.

"Deception: The Role of Guilt. "

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93, September, 2013, 227-232.

Proulx, T. & Major, B. (2013).

"A Raw Deal: Heightened Liberalism Following Exposure to Anomalous Playing Cards."

Journal of Social Issues,69(3) 455-472.

Charness, Gary, and Tsz Cheung.

"A Restaurant Experiment in Charitable Contributions"

Economics Letters, 119, April, 2013, 48-49.

Verta Taylor and Alison Dahl Crossley. 2013.

"Abeyance"

Pp. 1-3 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

Verta Taylor and Alison Dahl Crossley. 2013.

"Abeyance Cycles in Social Movements"

In Movements in Times of Demographic Transition, eds. Bert Klandermans and Cornelius van Stralen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, Edi Karnia, and Dan Levin.

"Ambiguity Attitudes: An Experimental Investigation"

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 46, February, 2013, 1-25.

Research Themes:

Blackwell A, Martin M, Kaplan H, Gurven M. 2013.

"Antagonism between two intestinal parasites in humans: the importance of coinfection for infection risk and recovery dynamics."

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280(1769): 20131671.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Lerner, A., H. Eakin, and S. Sweeney.

"Characterizing peri-urban households across a rural-urban gradient in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico"

Journal of Rural Studies 20, 52-63.2013.

Research Themes:

Sweeney, S., F. Davenport and K. Grace.

"Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala."

Economics and Human Biology. Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2013, 164-177.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Cassels S, Jenness SM, Khanna A. 2013.

"Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for Migration and HIV Transmission Dynamics."

AIDS & Behavior: Nov 21. NIMHMS 543091.

Education and Health, Sex and Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Research Themes:

Kennedy E.

"Confronting Lifetimes of Injustice in a Half-Day Workshop with IDPs in Bogota, Colombia."

Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.

Research Themes:

López-Carr, D. and J. Burgdorfer.

"Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land Use."

Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. (55)1: 3-11. 2013.

Research Themes:

Shen, Kailing, and Peter Kuhn. 2013.

"Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board."

Research in Labor Economics 37(2013): 1-30.

López-Carr, D.

"Do Population-Health-Environment (PHE) initiatives work? Evidence from WWF-sponsored projects in Africa and Asia."

Proceedings of theInternational Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 6.

Research Themes:

Murtinho, F., H. Eakin, D. Lopez-Carr, and T. Hayes.

"Does external funding help adaptation? Evidence from community-based water management in the Colombian Andes."

Environmental Management, 1-12.

Research Themes:

Mehta, Aashish and Wei Sun. 2013.

"Does industry affiliation influence wages? Evidence from Indonesia and the Asian Financial Crisis."

World Development.

Stoler, Justin, John R. Weeks, and Richard Appiah Otoo. 2013.

"Drinking Water in Transition: A Multilevel Cross- sectional Analysis of Sachet Water Consumption in Accra"

PLOS ONE, 8(6): e67257.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Rossin-Slater, Maya, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel.

"Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes"

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 32(2): 224-245, Spring 2013.

Research Themes:

Thébaud, Sarah. 2013.

"Entrepreneurship"

Pp. 251-254 in Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia edited by Vicki Smith. Sage Publications.

Jankowska, Marta, Magdalena Benza-Fiocco, and John R. Weeks. 2013.

"Estimating Spatial Inequalities of Urban Child Mortality"

Demographic Research, 28(2):33-62.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, Uri Gneezy and Alex Imas.

"Experimental Methods: Eliciting Risk Preferences"

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 87, March, 2013, 43-51.

Charness, Gary, Gneezy, Uri, and Michael Kuhn. 2013.

"Extra-Laboratory Experiments: Extending the Reach of Experimental Economics."

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 91, July, 2013, 93-100.

Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor. 2013.

"Feminism and Social Movements"

Pp. 459-463 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R., Justin Stoler, Allan G. Hill, Alex Zvoleff. 2013.

"Fertility in Context: Exploring Egocentric Neighborhoods in Accra"

Chapter 11 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).

Research Themes:

Kuhn, Peter and Kaling Shen.

"Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Evidence from China"

Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(1) (February 2013).

Research Themes:

Voss, K. A., J. S. Famiglietti, M. Lo, C. de Linage, M. Rodell, and S. C. Swenson.

"Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region."

Water Resour. Res., 49. 2013.

Research Themes:

Verta Taylor and Mayer Zald. 2013.

"Health Movements"

Pp. 555-558 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

Toure, Sory, Douglas Stow, John R. Weeks, and Sanil Kumar. 2013.

"Histogram Curve Matching Approaches for Object- Based Image Classification of Land Cover and Land Use"

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 79(5): 433-440.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Population Health and Environment

Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Hooper, P.

"Household task delegation among high-fertility forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia."

Current Anthropology 54(2):232-241.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health

Gurven, M., C. von Rueden, M. Massenkoff, H. Kaplan, & M. Lero Vi.

"How universal is the Big Five? Testing the Five-Factor Model of personality variation among forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 354-370. 2013.

Research Themes:

Gaulin, S. J. C. (2013).

"Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations"

second edition. San Diego: Cognella.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor. 2013.

"Identity Politics"

Pp. 580-584 in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, eds. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Research Themes:

Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Madimenos FC, Cepon TJ, Blackwell AD, Sugiyama LS. (2013)

"Implications of market integration for cardiovascular and metabolic health among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population."

Annals of Human Biology40(3) 228-242.

Research Themes:

Yang, Qingsheng , Kevin M. Mwenda, Miao Ge.

"Incorporating geographical factors with artificial neural networks to predict reference values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate."

International Journal of HealthGeographics. 2013.

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Research Themes:

Townsend, S.S.M., Eliezer, D., Major, B., Mendes, W.B. (2013).

"Influencing the world versus adjusting to constraints: Social class moderates responses to discrimination."

Social Psychological and Personality Science.5(2), 226-234.

Research Themes:

Major, B., Mendes, W.B. & Dovidio, J. (2013).

"Intergroup relations and health disparities: A social psychological perspective."

Health Psychology, 32, 514-524.

Research Themes:

Weeks, John R., Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler. 2013.

"Introduction"

to the Accra School: An Overview of Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Chapter 1 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).

Research Themes:

Eliezer, D. & Major, B.

"It's not your fault: The social costs of claiming discrimination on behalf of someone else"

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Vol 15, no 4. 487-502. 2013.

Research Themes:

Suter, L.K. and D. López-Carr.

"Land cover change and ownership turnover in the agricultural frontier: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala."

Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 11.

Research Themes:

A.E. Larsen.

"Landscape simplification does not consistently drive insecticide use."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 10.0173/pnas.1301900110.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Walker, R., Beckerman, S., Flinn, M., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Cordoba, L., Villar, D., Hagen, E., Koster, J., Hill, K.

"Living with kin in lowland horticultural societies"

Current Anthropology, 54, 96-103. 2013.

Research Themes:

Martin, M., Blackwell, A., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. (2013)

"Make new friends and keep the old? Parasite coinfection and comorbidity in Homo sapiens."

In: Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Developments in Primatology Series. Editors: Brinkworth, J.F. and E. Pechenkina. New York: Springer.

Research Themes:

Shi, X, Miller, S.D., Mwenda, K.M., Onda, A., Rees, J.R., Onega, T.L., Gui, J., Karagas, M.R., Demidenko, E., and Moeschler, J.B.

"Mapping Disease at an Approximated Individual Level Using Aggregate Data: A Case Study of Mapping New Hampshire Birth Defects."

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10: 4161-4174. 2013.

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

Research Themes:

Hanson-Sobraske, K., J. S. Boster, and S. J. C. Gaulin (2013).

"Mapping the conceptual space of jealousy"

Ethos 41:249-270.

Research Themes:

Rossiter, J., D. López-Carr.

"Marine Conservation and Fisheries"

Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.

Research Themes:

Bernstein, Mary and Verta Taylor. 2013.

"Marital Discord: Understanding the Contested Place of Marriage in the Lesbian and Gay Movement."

In The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage Within the Lesbian and Gay Movement, edited by Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 1-35.

Research Themes:

Chowdhury, Z., Campanella, L., Gray, C., Al Masud, A., Marter-Kenyon, J., Pennise, D., Charron, D.,Zuzhang, X.

"Measurement and modeling of indoor air pollution in rural households with multiple stove interventions in Yunnan, China."

Atmospheric Environment. Volume 67, March 2013: 161-169.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Sweeney, S., D. Steigerwald, F. Davenport, and H. Eakin.

"Mexican Maize Production: Evolving Organizational and Spatial Structures since 1980"

Applied Geography 39 (May 2013), 78-92.

Research Themes:

Major, B., Sawyer, P.J. & Kunstman, J.W. (2013).

"Minority perceptions of Whites' motives for responding without prejudice: The perceived internal and external motivation to avoid prejudice scales."

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 39(3), 401-414.

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M.

"Natural cooperators: food sharing in humans and other primates"

Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013.

Research Themes:

Jia, P., Mirtabatabaei A., N. E. Friedkin, and F. Bullo.

"On the dynamics of influence networks via reflected appraisal."

In American Control Conference, Washington, DC, USA, pages 1251-1256, June 2013.

Lauer, M., Albert, S., Aswani, S, Halpern, B. S., Campanella, L, and La Rose, D.

"Pacific Islands and the Paradox of Resilience: Large-scale Processes and Local Practices Enhance and Reduce Resilience to Ecological Disturbances"

Global Environmental Change. 2013.

Research Themes:

Rossin-Slater, Maya and Doug Almond.

"Paternity Acknowledgement in 2 Million Birth Records from Michigan"

PLoS ONE, 8(7): e70042, July 2013.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Pisor, A.C., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., & Yetish, G., A.C., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Kaplan, H., & Yetish, G.

"Patterns of senescence in cardiovascular fitness: VO2max in subsistence and industrialized populations."

American Journal of Human Biology 25(6), pp. 756-769. 2013.