Research
Publications
"Courage is beautiful But PPE Is Better: White Supremacy, Racial Capitalism, and Covid-19."
Contexts, Sociology for the Public, Blog. June 2020.
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"Does placental invasiveness lead to higher rates of malignant transformation in mammals? "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 215-216.
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"Agent‐based modelling reveals strategies to reduce the fitness and metastatic potential of circulating tumour cell clusters. "
Evolutionary Applications.
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"Prepaid electricity metering in South Africa. "
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2): 134-168.
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"Comparative Oncology: New Insights into an ancient disease. "
iScience 101373.
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"Improving cancer drug discovery by studying cancer across the tree of life. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution 37.1: 11-17.
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"Technology adoption under uncertainty: Take-up and subsequent investment in Zambia. "
Appendix Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(3): 617-632.
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"Lifetime cancer prevalence and life history traits in mammals. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 187-195.
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"Molecular biology and evolution of cancer: from discovery to action. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(2), 320-326.
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"Life history of human foraging: cross-cultural and individual variation. "
Science Advances 6: eaax9070. + SUPPLEMENT
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"High social status is associated with child health among women, but not men, in a horticulturalist population. "
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192783. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Toward integration of the niche diversity hypothesis with other explanations for personality covariation. Reply to Međedović. "
Social Psychological and Personality Science 11(4):574-576.
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"Microbiota assembly, structure, and dynamics among Tsimane horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon. "
Nature Communications 11:3772.
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"The optimal timing of teaching and learning across the life course. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190500. + SUPPLEMENT
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"Voluntary collective isolation as a best response to COVID-19 for indigenous populations? A case study and protocol from the Bolivian Amazon. "
Lancet 395:1727-1734.
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"WEIRD bodies? Mismatch, medicine and the future of human health. "
Evolution & Human Behavior.
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"Ubiquitous personality-trait concepts in 13 diverse and isolated languages: a cluster-classification approach. "
European Journal of Personality 34:164-179.
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"Relationship of sanitation, water boiling, and mosquito nets to health biomarkers in a rural subsistence population. 2020. "
American Journal of Human Biology 32(1):e23356.
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"Multi-system physiological dysregulation and ageing in a subsistence population. "
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:20190610.
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"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:114-128.
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"Rapidly declining core body temperature in a tropical human population. "
Science Advances 6: eabc6599.
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"Does exposure to parasites modify relationships between diurnal cortisol and leukocytes among Honduran women? "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 173:463-479.
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"Greater humility can help expand evolutionary social science. "
Evolution and Human Behavior 40:456-457.
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"C-reactive protein in traditional Melanesians on Kitava. "
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 20:524.
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"Market integration and urbanization have strong non-linear effects on metabolic health in the Turkana."
Science Advances 6:eabb1430.
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"Evidence for height and immune function trade-offs among pre-adolescents in a high pathogen population. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2020:86-99.
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"Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies. "
Evolution & Human Behavior 40:415-429.
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"Productivity loss associated with physical disability in a contemporary small-scale subsistence population. "
eLife 9:e62883.
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"Cribra orbitalia and porotic hyperostosis are associated with respiratory infections in a contemporary mortality sample from New Mexico. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Accepted.
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"The importance of cultural ecosystem services in natural resource-dependent communities: Implications for management. "
Ecosystem Services, (44)101123–101136
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"Examining the relationship between migration and forest cover change in Mexico from 2001 to 2010."
Land Use Policy. 91: 104334
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"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.
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"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
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"Immune function during pregnancy varies between ecologically distinct populations. "
Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoaa022
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"Identifying, defining and exploring angling as urban subsistence: Pier fishing in Santa Barbara, California. "
Marine Policy.
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"Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana. "
Demographic Research Demographic Research (42)589-614
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"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.
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"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
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"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
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"Race/ethnicity, human capital, and the selection of young children into early childhood education. "
Social Science Research 85: 102364.
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"Community Contexts, Supply of Early Childhood Programs, and Pre-Kindergarten Enrollment among Mexican- Origin Children."
Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 52(A):4-14.
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"Formal/informal employment and urban food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. "
Applied Geography, 114, 102131.
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"Dynamics of population growth in secondary cities across southern Africa. "
Landscape Ecology, 1-16.
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"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.
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"Comparing measures of urban food security in Accra, Ghana. "
Food Security, 1-15.
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"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.
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"The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Preferences: Evidence from Four Job Boards. "
Journal of Human Resources 55(2): 428-469.
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"Planning for classroom physical distancing to minimize the threat of COVID-19 disease spread. "
PLoS ONE 15, e0243345 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243345).
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"Educational Gender Gaps. "
Southern Economic Journal, October 2020, 87(2): 416-439.
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"Gender and Occupational Segregation. "
Pp. 305-325 in Companion to Women’s & Gender Studies, Nancy A. Naples, ed. Hoboken, NJ: W
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"Time, population mobility, and HIV transmission. "
The Lancet HIV. ePub Jan 14: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30413-8
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"Immigrant generational differences in social support and sexual risk behaviors among men who have sex with men in Seattle, Washington. "
AIDS Education and Prevention.
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"Gender Attitudes in Africa: Liberal Egalitarianism across 34 Countries. "
Social Forces
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"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.
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"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.
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"Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya. "
Climate and Development (2020): 1-13.
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"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).
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"Coastal vulnerability under extreme weather. "
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-020-09357-0).
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"Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana"
Demographic Research, Volume 42, Article 20, Pages 589-614.
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"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography. "
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
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"Trends in Support for Stay-at-Home Mothering. "
Contexts 19(2): 71-73.
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"Spatial variability in retail gasoline markets. "
Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science 3, 581-603 (DOI: 10.1007/s41685-019-00104-z).
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"Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity. "
Handbook of Cities and Networks, edited by C. Rozenblat and Z. Neal (Edward Elgar Publishers).
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"Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues, Thirteenth Edition. "
Boston, MA: Cengage Learning
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"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).
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"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).
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"Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation. "
Geo Spatial Technology and Smart City Development, edited by Poonam Sharma (Springer).
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"Spatial analysis of individual and village level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at first marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger."
BMC Public Health
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"How Costly is Turnover? Evidence from Retail. "
Journal of Labor Economics.
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"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.
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"When marriage is the best available option: perceptions of opportunity and risk in female adolescence in Tanzania. "
Global Public Health.
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"What does the American public know about 'child marriage'? "
PLOS ONE 15(9):e0238346.
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"Women in the economics profession: Challenges and opportunities along the pipeline. "
Introduction to Women in Economics, CEPR Press.
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"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).
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"When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice"
AEJ: Economic Policy (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
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"Incentives and Unintended Consequences: Spillover Effects in Food Choice. "
AEJ: Economic Policy 11 (Also NBER Working Paper #21481).
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"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage in Experimental Asset Markets"
Journal of Finance, 493-529)
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"Health consequences of prejudice and discrimination. "
In K. Sweeny & M. Robins (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Health Psychology.
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"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information.” "
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98.
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"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.
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"Discrimination, health, and the costs and benefits of believing in system fairness. "
Health Psychology, Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/hea0000841.
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"Opportunistic Conformism."
Journal of Economic Theory 100-134)
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"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
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"Crossing the racial line: The fluidity vs. fixedness of racial identity. "
Self and Identity, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2019.1662839.
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"Coital frequency and male concurrent partnerships during pregnancy and postpartum in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. "
AIDS and Behavior: 23(6): 1508-1517
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"Opportunistic Conformism"
Journal of Economic Theory, 100-134.
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"Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms. "
Sociological Methods and Research
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"An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information"
Journal of Economic Theory, 73-98
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"One Step Forward? Advances and Setbacks on the Path Toward Gender Equality in Families and Work. "
Sociology Compass.
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"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
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"Complexity in Risk Elicitation May Affect the Conclusions: A Demonstration Using Gender Differences. "
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.
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"Patterns of paternal investment explain cross-cultural variance in jealous response. "
Nature Human Behaviour. (doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0654-y).
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"Differences in Tsimane children's growth outcomes and associated determinants as estimated by WHO standards vs. within-population references. "
PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214965.
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"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
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"Methodological differences cannot explain associations between health, anthropometrics and excess RMR. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169:197-198.
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"Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox"
PNAS 201902406. +doi:10.1073/pnas.1902406116 + SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
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"Child-directed speech is infrequent in a forager-farmer population: a time allocation study."
Child Development 90(3):.759-773.
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"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.
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