Research
Publications
"Lyme Disease Risk Influences Human Settlement in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of Counties in the Northeastern United States"
Am J Trop Med Hyg Published online July 21, 2014; doi:10.4269/ajtmh.14-0181
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"Perceptions of environmental change in Moorea, French Polynesia: the importance of temporal, spatial, and scalar contexts."
GeoJournal. March, 1-15.
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"Foreword to John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson, eds."
The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants,a New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge.
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"Women Working on a Fair Flower Farm in Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study."
In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi:
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"Population Environment Theory and Contemporary Applications"
Encyclopedia of the Earth. Washington, D.C., Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. 24pp.
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"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)
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"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.
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"Age-independent increases in male salivary testosterone during horticultural activity among Tsimane forager-farmers."
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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"Migration, sexual networks, and HIV in Agbogbloshie, Ghana."
Demographic Research.
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"Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection."
Econometrica.
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"The evolutionary fitness of personality traits in a small-scale subsistence population."
Evolution & Human Behavior, 35, 17-25.
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"Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC)."
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford University Press.
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"Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence."
Management Science, 60, January, 2014, 38-55.
"The importance of place: Unraveling the vulnerability of fisherman livelihoods to the impact of marine protected areas"
Applied Geography.
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"Environmental Regulations and Labor Markets"
IZA World of Labor.
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"Growing buildings in corn fields: Urban expansion and the persistence of maize in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico."
Urban Studies51(10), 2185-2201.
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"On the reflected appraisals dynamics of influence networks with stubborn agents."
In American Control Conference, Portland, OR, USA, June 2014.
"Identity Module of the 2014 General Social Survey."
National Opinion Research Center.
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"Sex difference in travel is concentrated in adolescence and tracks reproductive interests."
Proceedings of Royal Society B281, 20141476.
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"Scale-Free Interpersonal Influences on Opinions in Complex Systems."
Journal of Mathematical Sociology.
"Can we pull back the curtain on old-fashioned assumptions?"
Gender & Society blog posting.
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"Demographic Transition Theory, and Malthus, Thomas."
George Ritzer, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing Co.).
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"Successful hunting increases testosterone and cortisol in a subsistence population."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 281:20132876
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"The ironic effects of weight stigma."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 51, 74-80.
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"Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?"
Economic Journal.
"Population Theories and Dynamics"
Chapter 5 in Deborah McFarlane, Editor, Global Population and Reproductive Health (Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning).
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"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."
Journal of Bioeconomics.
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"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.
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"Are There Racial Gaps in High School Leadership Opportunities? Do Academics Matter More?"
in the Review of Black Political Economy, 41(4):393-409.
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"Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs."
PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. 2014.
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"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."
GeoJournal. April, 1-11.
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"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.
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"Social Movement Unionism in Practice: Organizational Dimensions of Union Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Marches."
Work, Employment and Society. Forthcoming.
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"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.
"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.
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"Obtaining Critical Values for Test of Markov Regime Switching"
Stata Journal, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 481-498.
"Smoking Guns or Smoke & Mirrors?: Schools and the Policing of Latino Boys."
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal.
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"Place Utility"
in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.
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"Identities, Selection, and Contributions in a Public-goods Game."
Games and Economic Behavior, 87, September, 2014, 322-338.
"A comment on the service-for-prestige theory of leadership."
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 412.
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"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health"
eou021, DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou02
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"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.
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"Political influence associates with cortisol and health among egalitarian forager-farmers."
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 122-133. doi:10.1093/emph/eou021
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"Climate Change, Human Health, and Adaptation: A Review of the Empirical Literature"
Energy Economics(NBER Working Paper No. 18345)
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"Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform: The 'Maize Boom' of Sinaloa, Mexico."
Journal of Agrarian Change14 (1), 26-51.
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"Testosterone and male cognitive performance in Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."
American Journal of Human Biology.
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"Models of Influence in Networks"
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Science, 2nd edition. Elsevier.
"Are we still queer even though we're married?"
Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds 13 (2): 83-87.
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"The political demography of U.S.-Cuba relations."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/18/the-polit….
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"Two Steps to Obfuscation"
Social Networks39: 12-13.
"Into the fire: Disaster and the Remaking of Gender"
American Journal of Sociology 119 (6).
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"Complex Human 'Transitions' that Shape Our World."
Global-e, 8(10): 1. 2014
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"Examining the link between food price and food insecurity: A multi-level analysis of maize price and birthweight in Kenya."
Food Policy, 46: 56-65.
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"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory"
In Spatial Demography (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
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"Migration, remittances and smallholder decision-making: implications for land use and livelihood change in Central America."
Land Use Policy. 36: 319-329.
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"Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America."
Demographic Research, 30: 6 (187-226).
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"The Internet as a Labor Market Matchmaker: How Effective Are the New Electronic Methods of Worker Recruitment and Job Search?"
IZA World of Labor.
"Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues"
Twelfth Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning).
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"Weight Stigma Mediates the Association between BMI and Psychological and Physical Health."
Health Psychology.
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"Your Mall With it All: Luxury Development in a Globalizing African City"
Perspectives in Global Development and Technology. 13: 129-147. 2014.
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"A framework to assess the vulnerability of California commercial sea urchin fishermen to the impact of MPAs under climate change."
GeoJournal. March, 1-19.
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"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."
Critical Sociology.
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"Population and Land Use"
In Erika Zavaleta and Harold Mooney, Eds. Ecosytems of California (Berkeley: University of California Press. [Population-Environment Interactions] 2014.
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"Conservation and livelihood outcomes of payment for ecosystem services in the Ecuadorian Andes: What is the potential for 'win-win'?"
Ecosystem Services, Volume 8, June 2014, Pages 148-165, ISSN 2212-0416.
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"Trust and Reciprocity."
Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics.
"Strategic choices vs. maladaptive development"
[Peer commentary on "An Evolutionary Life History Framework for Psychopathology" by M. Del Giudice]. Psychological Inquiry. 2014.
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"Do rights at home boost rights abroad? Sexual equality and humanitarian foreign policy."
Journal of Peace Research.
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"Place and sexual partnership transition among young American Indian and Alaska Native Women."
AIDS & Behavior. 18(8): 1443-1453. NIMHMS 544384.
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"Who Likes Math Where?"
Gender Differences in Eighth-graders' Attitudes around the World. International Studies in Sociology of Education 24:85-112.
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"Intergenerational Effects on Health - In Utero and Early Life"
for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics produced by Elsevier.
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"Population, Poverty, and the Nutrition Transition"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards sustainable food systems. Ed. Colin Sage.
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"Starting Small towards Voluntary Formation of Efficient Large Groups in Public Goods Provision."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 102,June, 2014, 119-132.
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"Functional disability and social conflict increase risk of depression in older adulthood among Bolivian forager-farmers."
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
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"Factors Affecting Migration Intentions in Ecological Restoration Areas and Their Implications for the Sustainability of Ecological Migration Policy in Arid Northwest China"
Sustainability. Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 8639-8660, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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"Breast milk DHA content predicts cognitive performance in a sample of 28 nations. "
Maternal & Child Nutrition.
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"Deception: The Role of Guilt. "
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 93, September, 2013, 227-232.
"Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala."
Economics and Human Biology. Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2013, 164-177.
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"Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land Use."
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. (55)1: 3-11. 2013.
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"Sex Typing."
In Vicki Smith and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds. Sociology of Work. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications.
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"Histogram Curve Matching Approaches for Object- Based Image Classification of Land Cover and Land Use"
Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 79(5): 433-440.
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"Sachet drinking water in Ghana's Accra-Tema Metropolitan Area: Past, present, and future"
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2013.
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"Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries: A case study of Guatemala"
Journal of Population Research. March 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1, 19-37.
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"Vulnerability to Climate Change."
In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
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"Human Evolution: Processes and Adaptations"
second edition. San Diego: Cognella.
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"What if Neighbors' Neighborhoods Differ: The Influence of Neighborhood Definitions on Health Outcomes in Accra"
Chapter 9 in John R. Weeks, Allan G. Hill, and Justin Stoler, Editors, Spatial Inequalities: Health Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
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"Strategies for Designing Successful Marine Resource Management Programs in Oceania"
Pacific Science. 2013.
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"Presumed fair: Ironic effects of organizational diversity structures."
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104 (3) 504-519.
"Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board."
Research in Labor Economics 37(2013): 1-30.
"Experimental Methods: Eliciting Risk Preferences"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 87, March, 2013, 43-51.
"The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality"
Journal of Labor Economics, July 2013, 31(3): 421-442.
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"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.
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"Promises in Contract Design."
European Economic Review, 64, November, 2013, 194-208.
"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.
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"Refugees from Central American gangs denied."
Forced Migration Review 43: 50-52.
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"Does external funding help adaptation? Evidence from community-based water management in the Colombian Andes."
Environmental Management, 1-12.
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"Conceptual Framework and Research Methods for Migration and HIV Transmission Dynamics."
AIDS & Behavior: Nov 21. NIMHMS 543091.
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"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.
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"Confronting Lifetimes of Injustice in a Half-Day Workshop with IDPs in Bogota, Colombia."
Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.
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"What factors influence participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services programs? An evaluation of Ecuador's SocioPáramo program."
Land Use Policy. 36:122-133.
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