Research

Publications

Marcellus Caldus, Matthew Sanderson Jason Bergtold, David Haukos; Jessica Heier Stamm Martha Mather Melinda Daniels; Aleksey Sheshukov, David López-Carr (2015 - In Press). 
"Culture into Sustainability Science Research and Policy."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Emery Thompson, M., Fuerstenberg, E., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2015.  
"Testosterone is associated with enhanced cognitive performance in a subsistence population with minimal schooling."
American Journal of Human Biology. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22665. 
Rios, V.M. 2015. 
"Policed, Punished, Dehumanized: The Reality for Young Men of Color Living in America."
In Johnson, Devon et. al Deadly Injustice: Race, Criminal Justice and the Death of Trayvon Martin. NYU Press. 
Research Themes:
K. Mwenda, P. Kyriakidis, D. López-Carr (2015).
"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. 
Gurven, M., Jaeggi, A., von Rueden, C., Hooper, P., Kaplan, H. 2015. 
"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
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?"
Briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families. November 5. 
Research Themes:
Pedulla, David S. and Sarah Thébaud (equal authorship). 2015.
"Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint."
American Sociological Review.
Research Themes:
A. Lopez-Carr, D. López-Carr, L. Grant, J. Weeks (2015).
"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.  
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks. 2015. 
"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).
Thébaud, Sarah and David S. Pedulla. 2015. 
"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. 
Ellis, Corrie. 2015
"Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice"
The Feminist Wire, April 27
Niblett, M., S. Sweeney, R. Church, and K. Barber. 2015. 
"Structure of fisher (Martes pennanti) habitat in a managed forest in an interior Northern California coast range."
Forest Science 61(3), 481-493. 
Lopez-Carr, D. and Marter-Kenyon, J.* 2015. 
"COMMENT: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature. 517: 265-267 (15 January 2015) * co-first authors
Wuff, Stephen, Mary Bernstein, and Verta Taylor. 2015. 
"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.
Research Themes:
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation."
Social Forces 94: 61-86.
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary (with Ernst Fehr). 2015.
"From the Lab to the Real World."
Science, 30 October, 2015, 512-513.
Blackwell, AD, Tamayo, M, Beheim, B, Trumble, BC, Stieglitz, J, Hooper, PL, Martin, M, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)
"Infection with helminths affects fecundity and age of first pregnancy in human females, in submission."
Richey, A. S., Thomas, B. F., Lo, M.-H., Reager, J. T., Famiglietti, J. S., Voss, K., Swenson, S. and Rodell, M. (2015). 
"Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE."
Water Resour. Res.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2015WR017349.
Deschenes, Olivier. 2015. 
"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
Dover, T. L., Major, B., Kunstman, J. W., & Sawyer, P. J. (2015) 
"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.
Research Themes:
K. Mwenda, P. Kyriakidis, D. López-Carr.  2015. 
"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.
Blackwell, A.D., Tamayo, M.A., Beheim, B., Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P.L., Martin, M., Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Helminth infection, fecundity and age of first pregnancy in women."
Science 350: 970-972. 
Kirby, T., Kaiser, C. & Major, B. (2015)
"Insidious procedures: Diversity awards legitimize unfair organizational procedures."
Social Justice Research, 28, 169-186. doi: 10.1007/s11211-015-0240-z
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary,Till Gross and Chris Guo. 2015. 
"Merit Pay and Wage Compression with Productivity Differences and Uncertainty."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117, September, 2015, 233-247.
Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M., Wood, B., Pontzer, H., Manger, P., Wilson, C., McGregor, R., Siegel, J.M. 2015. 
"Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies."
Current Biology 25:1-7. 
Hendley, Alexandra and Maria Charles. 2015.
"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.
Research Themes:
Shelly Lundberg. 2015.
"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.  
Research Themes:
Stieglitz, J., Schniter, E., von Rueden, C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2015.
"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. 
Arielle Sarah Levine, Laurie Richmond,David Lopez-Carr. (2015) 
"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
Oliva, Paulina. 2015. 
"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.
Khanna A, Roberts ST, Cassels S, Ying R, John-Stewart G, Goodreau SM, Baeten JM, Murnane P, Celum C, Barnabas RV. 2015.
"Estimating PMTCT's Impact on Heterosexual HIV Transmission: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis."
PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134271. (PMCID: PMC4532442).
Shannon Gleeson, David López-Carr, (2015). 
"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.
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Gurven, M., Gaulin, S.J.C. 2015.
"The low male voice is a costly signal of phenotypic quality among Bolivian adolescents."
Evolution and Human Behavior. 
Rios, V.M. 2015
"Race and Deviance: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys."
In Goode, Erich Wiley Handbook on Deviance. 
Research Themes:
Maryam Alaeddini, David López-Carr (2015). 
"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.
Schniter, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Wilcox, N.T., Hooper, P. 2015. 
"Forager skill ontogeny among Tsimane Amerindians."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
Rios, V.M. 2015. 
"Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography."
City and Community. 
Gaulin, S. J. C. 2015. 
"Evolutionary psychology."
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
S. Toure, D. Stow, L. Coulter, A. Sanborn, D. López-Carr (2015).
"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.
Ryan Engstrom, Avery Sandborn, Yu Qin, Jason Burgdorfer, Douglas Stow, John Weeks, and Jordan Graesser. 2015. 
"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
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"How the Myth of 'Lone Warrior' Entrepreneur Penalizes Women."
The Conversation. March 6.
Research Themes:
Kuhn, Peter and Marie Claire Villeval. 2015.
"Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation than Men?"
Economic Journal 125 (582) (February 2015) Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12122.
Research Themes:
Lukaszewski, A., von Rueden, C., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Adaptive personality calibration among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists: effects of embodied capital on prosocial traits."
Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv051
Weeks, John R. Demography is an Inherently Spatial Science, in Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, and Stephen A. Matthews. In press. 
"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography."
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
David S. Pedulla and Sarah Thébaud. 2015. 
"Leaning in at Work and at Home: Why Workplace Policies Matter."
The Conversation. January 29. 
Research Themes:
Major, B, & Dover, T. 2015.
"Attributions to discrimination: Antecedents and Consequences."
In T.D. Nelson (Ed.). Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press. 
Rossin-Slater, Maya, Janet Currie. 2015. 
"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.
Royer, Heather with Mark Stehr and Justin Sydnor. 2015
"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.
Research Themes:
Mwenda K.M., Kyriakidis P.C., López-Carr, D. 2015. 
"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.
Miller, Shaeleya and Verta Taylor. 2015. 
"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.
Research Themes:
Trumble BC, Eid Rodriguez D, Cortez Linares E, Kaplan H, Gurven M. (2015).  
"Challenging the inevitability of age-related prostate enlargement: low levels of benign hyperplasia among Bolivian Amerindians."
Journal of Gerontology:  Medical Sciences.
Grosse, Corrie Ellis. 2016. 
"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
Research Themes:
Steiglitz, J, Trumble, B, Emery Thompson, M, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)
"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
Charles, Maria, Corrie Ellis Grosse and Paula England. 2015.
"Is There a Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission of Care Work."
Sociological Science. 2:527-43.
Research Themes:
Deschenes, Olivier. 2015. 
"Green Jobs."
In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright, 2015, pp. 372-378
Brady, L.M., Kaiser, C., Major, B. & Kirby, T. (2015)
"It's fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.57, 100-110.
Kelly Bedard (with Philip Babcock, Gary Charness, John Hartman, and Heather Royer). 2015. 
"Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives."
The Journal of the European Economic Association. October 2015, 841-870.
Research Themes:
Trumble, B., Jaeggi, A., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Evolving the neuroendocrine physiology of human and primate cooperation and collective action."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 370: 20150014. 
LaCosse, J., Tuscherer, T., Kunstman, J., Plant, A., Trawalter, S. & Major, B. 2015. 
"Suspicion of White people's motives relates to relative accuracy in detecting external motivation to respond without prejudice."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Research Themes:
Shelly Lundberg with Robert Pollak). 2015.
"The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010"
Future of Children. Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.
Research Themes:
Fessler, D.M.T., Barrett, H.C., Kanovsky, M., Stich, S., Holbrook, C., Henrich, J., Bolyanatz, A., Gervais, M.M., Gurven, M., Kushnick, G., Pisor, A.C., von Rueden, C., Laurence, S. 2015. 
"Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20150907. 
López-Carr, D., & Marter-Kenyon, J. (2015). 
"Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature, 517: 265-267.
Oliva, Paulina. Forthcoming. 
"Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortatity Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City, with Rema Hanna and Eva Arceo."
The Economic Journal.
Huang CE, Cassels S, Winer RL. 2015. 
"Self-reported sex partner dates for use in measuring concurrent partnerships: Correspondence between two assessment methods."
Archives of Sexual Behavior44(4): 873-883. (PMCID: PMC4382421).
Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B., Trumble, B., Madimenos, F., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Low mineral density of a weight-bearing bone among adult women in a high fertility population."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
Carla Guenther, David López-Carr, Hunter S Lenihan. (2015) 
"Differences in lobster fishing effort before and after MPA establishment"
Applied Geography. Volume 59, Pages 78-87. 
Hooper PL, Gurven M, Winking J, Kaplan HS. 2015. 
"Inclusive fitness and differential productivity across the life course determine intergenerational transfers in a small-scale human society."
Proc. R. Soc. B 282: 20142808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2808 + SUPPLEMENT
Kelly Bedard (with Heather Antecol). 2015.
"Immigrants and Immigrant Health."
The Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller editors, Elsevier, 2015, 255-299.
Research Themes:
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr.
"Agricultural Inputs, Outputs, and Population Density at the Country-Level in Latin America: Decadal Changes Augur Challenges for Sustained Food Production and Forest Conservation."
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER) 16(1): 63-76. 2015.
Kaplan, H., Hooper, P.L., Stieglitz, J., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"The causal relationship between fertility and infant mortality: prospective analyses of a population in transition."
Population in the Human Sciences: Concepts, Models, Evidence(Editors: P. Kreager, B. Winney, S. Ulijaszek, C. Capelli). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 361-378. 
Rios, V.M. and Sarabia, Rachel. 2015. 
"Synthesized Masculinities: The Mechanics of Manhood among Delinquent Boys."
In Pascoe, CJ and Bridges, Tristan Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change. Oxford University Press. 
Research Themes:
Chen, Hai, D. López-Carr, et al. (2015). 
"China's Grain for Green Policy and Farm Dynamics: Simulating Household Land-use Responses."
Regional Environmental Change. (DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0826-x)
Gurven, M., Jaeggi, A. 2015. 
"Food sharing."
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. SAGE. Edited by Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn. 
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"Stronger Work-Family Policies Help Women Build Better Businesses."
The Conversation. November 19. 
Research Themes:
Gaulin, S. J. C. and W. D. Lassek. 2015. 
"Sexual dimorphism"
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
Rossin-Slater, Maya. 2015. 
"Promoting Health in Early Childhood."
Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64
Research Themes:
C. Tuholske, D. López-Carr, Dar Robers (2015). 
"Anthropomorphic impacts on Roatán, Honduras: 30 Years of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change."
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: 1-7. 
Marta M. Jankowska, Justin Stoler, Caetlin Ofiesh, David Rain, and John R. Weeks. 2015. 
"Agency, Access, and Anopheles: Neighborhood health perceptions and the implications for community health interventions in Accra, Ghana."
Global Health Action, 8(http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.26492).
Thébaud, Sarah, with Patricia Greene. 2015. 
"State of the Field: Gender."
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. February 19. 
Research Themes:
Lundberg, Shelly. 2015.
"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"
Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.
Research Themes:
Lukaszewski, A. & C. von Rueden. 2015. 
"The extraversion continuum in evolutionary perspective: a review of recent theory and evidence."
Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 186-192. 
Eakin, H., K. Appendini, S. Sweeney, and H. Perales. 2015. 
"Correlates of land use and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico."
World Development 70, 78-91. 
Chen, H., Marter-Kenyon, J., Lopez-Carr, D. and Liang, X. 2015. 
"Land cover and landscape changes in Shaanxi Province during China's Green for Green Program (2000-2010)."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment187(10): 1-14.
Cieslak, M., Ryan, W., Macy, A., Kelsey, R.M., Cornick, J.E., Verket, M., Blascovich, J., & Grafton, S. (2014).
"Simultaneous acquisition of functional magnetic resonance images and impedance cardiography."
Psychophysiology.
Research Themes:
Cornick, J. E., & Blascovich, J. (2014).
"Are Virtual Environments the New Frontier in Obesity Management?"
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 650-658.
Research Themes:
López-Carr, D., N.G. Pricope, J. Aukema, C. Funk, M. Jankowska, G. Husak, and J. Michaelsen. 
"A spatial analysis of population dynamics and climate change in Africa: Potential vulnerability hot spots emerge where precipitation declines and demographic pressures coincide."
Population and Environment. 35 (3), 323-339.
Weinberger, C. 2014. 
"Are There Racial Gaps in High School Leadership Opportunities? Do Academics Matter More?"
in the Review of Black Political Economy, 41(4):393-409.
Research Themes:
C. Costello, O. Deschênes, A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines.
"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."
Journal of Bioeconomics.
McCarthy, J., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and B. Walker.2014.
"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."
GeoJournal. April, 1-11.
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:
Fessler, D.M.T, Pisor, A.C., & Navarrete, C.D.
"Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs."
PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. 2014. 
Dover, T., Major, B. & Kaiser, C. R. 2014. 
"Diversity initiatives, status, and system-justifying beliefs: When and how diversity efforts de-legitimize discrimination claims."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 17(4), 485-493. 
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.
Engeman, Cassandra. 
"Social Movement Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Marches."
Work, Employment and Society. Forthcoming.
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:
López-Carr, D. and D. Phillips. Forthcoming. 
"Place Utility"
in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.
Steigerwald, Doug and Valerie Bostwick. 
"Obtaining Critical Values for Test of Markov Regime Switching"
Stata Journal, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 481-498.
von Rueden, C. 2014. 
"A comment on the service-for-prestige theory of leadership."
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 412. 
Von Rueden, CR, Trumble, BC, Emory Thompson, M, Stieglitz, J, Hooper, PL, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, HS, Gurven, M. (2014)
"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health"
eou021, DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou02
Charness, Gary,Ramón Cobo- Reyes and Natalia Jiménez. 
"Identities, Selection, and Contributions in a Public-goods Game."
Games and Economic Behavior, 87, September, 2014, 322-338.