Research

Publications

Martin M and Sela D.
"Infant gut microbiota: developmental influences and health outcomes."
In: Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective. Clancy K, Hinde K, Rutherford J., eds. Springer. 2012.
Weeks, Gregory B., and John R. Weeks
"Immigration and Transnationalism: Rethinking the Role of the State in Latin America"
International Migration. 2012
Justin Stoler, Dean Daniels, John R. Weeks, Douglas A. Stow, Lloyd L. Coulter, and Brian K. Finch.
"Assessing the Utility of Satellite Imagery with Differing Spatial Resolutions for Deriving Proxy Measures of Slum Presence in Accra, Ghana"
GIScience & Remote Sensing, 49(1):31-52, 2012.
Hughes, S.; A. Yau; L. Max; N. Petrovic; F. Davenport; M. Marshall; T.R. McClanahan; E.H. Allison; and J.E. Cinner.
"A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries."
Environmental Science and Policy 23:95-108. 2012.
Ashcroft, Eric, Douglas A. Stow, John R. Weeks, S. Toure, Christopher Lippitt, and Lloyd Coulter
"Urban vegetation cover and vegetation change in Accra, Ghana: Connection to housing quality"
Professional Geographer, 2012
John R. Weeks.
"Why Do Some Countries Have a Demographic Dividend and Others Do Not?"
Chapter 10 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Charness, Gary, Uri Gneezy and Michael Kuhn
"Experimental Methods: Between-subject and Within-subject Design"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81, January, 2012, 1-8
Winant, Howard.
"The Dark Matter"
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 35, no. 4 (April 2012).
Research Themes:
Clark, Damon and Heather Royer
"The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain"
Working Paper 16013http://www.nber.org/papers/w16013. 2012
Research Themes:
Veile, A., Winking, J., Gurven, M., Greaves, R.D., Kramer, K.L. 2012.
"Infant growth and the thymus: data from two South American native societies."
American Journal of Human Biology 24:768-775. 2012.
Charness, Gary, and Matthias Sutter.
"Groups make Better Self-Interested Decisions"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26, Summer, 2012, 157-176. 2012
Martin, M.A., Glassek, W.D., Gaulin, S.J.C., Evans, R.W., Woo, J.G., Geraghty, S.R., Davidson, B.S., Morrow, A.L., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M.D.
"Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager-horticulturalists: controlled comparisons with a U.S. sample."
Maternal and Child Nutrition 8(3):404-418. 2012.
Gurven, Michael, Stacey L. Rucas, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan
"Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life-Course in the Bolivian Amazon"
Aggressive Behavior. Volume 38, pages 194-207 (2012)
Charness, Gary and Uri Gneezy.
"Strong Evidence for Gender Differences in Risk-taking"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83, June 2012, 50-58.
Research Themes:
Coordinating lead authors: M. A. Levy and A. C. Morel; Lead authors: S. B. Adamo, J. Barr, C. P. McMullen, T. Dietz, D. Lopez-Carr and E. A. Rosa; Contributing authors: A. Crawford, E. R. Desombre, M. Gluschankoff, K. Goulias, J. Jabbour, Y. Kim, D. L. Debucquet, A. R. Moreno, S. Msangi, M. Paterson, B. Punsalmaa, R. Tomalty and C. Townsend.
"Drivers."
Fifth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 3-30. 2012.
Clark, M., J. Davis, López-Carr, D., M. Jankowska, L. Grant, A.C. López-Carr, M. Clark
"Space versus Place in Complex Human-Natural Systems: Spatial and Multi-level Models of Tropical Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) in Guatemala"
Ecological Modeling. 2012
Deschenes, Olivier, C. Costello, D. Ovando, R. Hilborn, S. Gaines, and S. Lester.
"Status and Solutions for the World's Unassessed Fisheries"
Science, October 26 2012, 338, 517-520.
Honzak, C., D. López-Carr.
"Conservation and Family Planning: What is the Value of Integrating Family Planning into Conservation Projects?"
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Francisco, CA.
Oliva, Paulina
"Environmental Regulations and Corruption: Automobile Emissions in Mexico City"
2012
Gurven, M.
"Human survival and life history in evolutionary perspective"
The Evolution of Primate Societies. Mitani, J., Call, J., Kappeler, P., Palombit, R., Silk, J. (Eds). 2012. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pages 293-314.
Anonymous and Kennedy E.
"Through Hell to Limbo in a Lorry: Afghan Child Migrants to the UK."
OpenDemocracy 50.50 8 October 2012.
Blackwell, Aaron D., Michael Gurven, Daniel Eid Rodríguez, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan
"Does Blood Pressure Inevitably Rise With Age? Longitudinal Evidence Among Forager-Horticulturalists"
Hypertension 60(1): 25-33. 2012
Mehta, Aashish, Patrick Herron, Yasuyuki Motoyama, Richard Appelbaum and Tim Lenoir.
"Globalization and De-Globalization in Nanotechnology Research: The role of China"
Scientometrics (2012).93: 439-458.
A.E. Larsen.
"Modeling multiple non-consumptive effects in simple food webs; a modified Lotka-Volterra approach."
Behavioral Ecology 23 (5): 1115-1125.
Research Themes:
Trumble, B., D. Cummings, C. von Rueden, K. O'Connor, E. Smith, M. Gurven, & H. Kaplan.
"Physical competition increases testosterone among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists: a test of the "challenge hypothesis""
Proceedings of Royal Society B., 279, 2907-2912. 2012.
Rios, V.M. and Lopez-Aguado.
"Performance of Cholo Style as Identity of Resistance In Aldama, Arturo et.al."
Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands. Indiana: Indiana University Press. 2012.
Research Themes:
Ervin, Daniel.
"Point Pattern Analysis."
GIS Population Science, Topics in GIS and Population Science. GISPopSci.org. Pp.4. 2012.
Ampofo, Joseph, Justin Stoler, Günther Fink, John R. Weeks, Richard Appiah Otoo and Allan G. Hill
"When Urban Taps Run Dry: Sachet Water Consumption and Health Effects in Low Income Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana"
Health & Place, Volume 18, Issue 2, March 2012, pages 250-262.
Rossin-Slater, Maya and Christel Brellochs.
"Preconception Health and Health Care and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Opportunities for Collaboration"
National Center for Children in Poverty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Report, May 2012.
Engeman, Cassandra, Lynn Baumgartner, Benjamin Carr, Allison Fish, John Meyerhofer, Terre Satterfield, Patricia Holden, and Barbara Herr Harthorn.
"Governance Implications of Nanomaterials Companies' Inconsistent Risk Perceptions and Safety Practices."
Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 14(3): 749-760. doi: 10.1007/s11051-012-0749-0. 2012.
Research Themes:
Engstrom, Ryan, David Rain, Caetlin Ofiesh, Henry Jewell, and John R. Weeks
"Defining Neighborhood Boundaries for Urban Health Research in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana"
Journal of Maps, Special Issue on Innovative Mapping in Spatial Demography. 2012
Research Themes:
John R. Weeks, Arthur Getis, Douglas A. Stow, Allan G. Hill, David Rain, Ryan Engstrom, Justin Stoler, Christopher Lippitt, Marta Jankowska, Anna Carla Lopez, Lloyd Coulter, and Caetlin Ofiesh.
"Connecting the Dots Between Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana"
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 102, Issue 5, 2012.
Charness, Gary. 2012. 
"Communication in Bargaining Experiments"
Handbook of Conflict Resolution.
Gregory B. Weeks and John R. Weeks.
"The Demographic Fit Between the US and Latin America"
Chapter 11 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Aswani, S., R.J. Hamilton, M. Giningele, J.L. Ecochard
"Fishing in the dark - local knowledge, night spearfishing and spawning aggregations in the Western Solomon Islands"
Biological Conservation: 246-257. 2012
Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A.D., Quispe Gutierrez, R., Cortez Linares, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H.
"Modernization, sexual-risk taking and gynecological morbidity among Bolivian forager-horticulturalists."
PLOS One, December 2012, Volume 7, Issue 12.
Charles, Maria.
"Global Sex Segregation"
In George Ritzer, ed. Encyclopedia of Globalization. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.
Research Themes:
Gurven, M.
"Infant and fetal mortality among a high mortality population in the Bolivian Amazon."
Social Science and Medicine 24:786-799.
Charness, Gary, and Greg DeAngelo.
"Deterrence, Expected Cost, Uncertainty and Voting: Experimental Evidence"
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 44, February 2012, 73-100. 2012.
Guenther, C, H. Lenihan, L. Grant, D. López-Carr, D. Reed
"Trophic Cascased Induces by Lobster Fishing Are Not Ubiquitous in Suothern California Kelp Forests."
Plos One, November 2012, Volume 7, Issue 11.
Lundberg, Shelly
"Psychology and Family Economics"
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 2011 12 (Special Issue): 66-81
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary and Roger Jahnke.
"A Group-based Wellness Intervention in the Laboratory"
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 12, March 2012.
Research Themes:
Suter, L. and D. López-Carr.
"Beyond the middle of nowhere: out-migration from the agricultural frontier in the Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Guatemala."
Proceedings of the Latin American Studies 2012 International Congress. pp 1-25. 2012.
An, Li, Sarah M. Wandersee, David López-Carr, Yeqin Yang.
"Perception and Decisions in Modeling Coupled Human and Natural Systems: A Case Study from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China"
Ecological Modeling. (229) 37-49. 2012.
Deschenes, Olivier.
"Climate Policy and Labor Markets"
The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, Edited by Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, University of Chicago Press, 2012.
An, L., D. López-Carr.
"Modeling Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Research Directions."
Ecological Modeling. (229)1-4. 2012.
Sutton, John.
"Imprisonment and Opportunity Structures: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis"
European Sociological Review Vol 28 Number 1. 2012. 12-27.
Research Themes:
Lundberg, Shelly.
"Personality and Marital Surplus"
IZA Journal of Labor Economics, October 2012, 1:3.
Kennedy E.
"A Transnational Journey to be Someone: Central American Child Migrants to the US."
OpenDemocracy 50.50
Childress C.C. and N.E. Friedkin
"Cultural Reception and Production: The Social Construction of Meaning in Book Clubs"
American Sociological Review 77: 45-68. 2012
Mehta, Aashish and Rana Hasan.
"Economic Liberalization and Rising College Premiums in Mexico: A Reinterpretation"
World Development (2012). vol. 40, issue 9, pages 1908-1920.
N.L. Gutiérrez, S.R. Valencia, T.A. Branch, D.J. Agnew, P. L. Bianchi, J. Cornejo-Donoso, C. Costello, O.Defeo, T.E. Essington, D.D. Hoggarth, A. E. Larsen, C. Ninnes, R. L. Selden, S.Sistla, A.D.M. Smith, A. Stern-Pirlot, S. J. Teck, J.T. Thorson, N.E.Williams.
"Eco-labels convey reliable information on stock status to seafood consumers."
PLoS One 7 (8) e43765. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043765.
von Rueden, C. & M. Gurven.
"When the strong punish: why net costs of punishment are often negligible"
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 43-44. 2012.
Rios, V.M.
"Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips and Other Crimes of Resistance"
Contexts. American Sociological Association. Vol. 11, N. 2. 2012.
Ervin, Daniel.
"An Introduction to the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem."
GIS Population Science, Topics in GIS and Population Science. GISPopSci.org. Pp.4.  2012.
Brouwer, Kimberly C., Remedios Lozada, John R. Weeks, Carlos Magis-Rodríguez, Michelle Firestone-Cruz, and Steffanie A. Strathdee
"Intra-Urban Mobility and its Potential Impact on the Spread of Blood-Borne Infections among Drug Injectors in Tijuana, Mexico"
Substance Use and Misuse, 47(3):244-253. 2012.
Research Themes:
Heather McKee Hurwitz and Verta Taylor.
"Women's Cultures and Social Movements in Global Contexts."
Sociology Compass. 6/10: 808-822. 2012.
Research Themes:
Grace, K.; F. Davenport; C. Funk; and A.M. Lerner.
"Child malnutrition and climate in Sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of recent trends in Kenya."
Applied Geography 35:405-413. 2012.
Coulter, Lloyd L., Gregg Verutes, and John R. Weeks
"Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana: Mapping Neighborhoods"
Journal of Maps, Special Issue on Innovative Mapping in Spatial Demography. 2012
John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate.
"Introduction: What is the youth bulge and why does it matter?"
Chapter 1 in John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate, Editors, The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity? (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
John R. Weeks and Debbie L. Fugate.
"The Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity?"
Editors, (New York: IDEBATE Press), 2012.
Research Themes:
Aswani, S, P. Christie, N. Muthiga, R. Mahon, J. H. Primavera, L. A. Cramer, E. B. Barbier, E. F. Granek, C. J. Kennedy, E. Wolanski, and S. D. Hacker
"The Way Forward with Ecosystem- Based Management in Tropical Contexts: Reconciling with Existing Management Systems"
Marine Policy 36: 1-10. 2012
McAllister, L., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Stieglitz, J.
"Why Do Women Have More Children Than They Want? Understanding Differences in Women's Ideal and Actual Family Size in a Natural Fertility Population"
American Journal of Human Biology 24: 786-799 (2012).
Charles, Maria.
"Review of Framed by Gender: Why Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World, by Cecilia Ridgeway."
European Sociological Review. 2012.
Research Themes:
Gurven, M., Stieglitz, J., Hooper, P., Gomes, C., Kaplan, H.
"From the womb to the tomb: the role of transfers in shaping the evolved human life history."
Experimental Gerontology 47:807-813. 2012.
Gurven, Michael, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Jeffrey Winking
"Infidelity, jealousy, and wife abuse among Tsimane forager-farmers: testing evolutionary hypotheses of marital conflict"
Evolution and Human Behavior, 33: 438-448. 2012.
Charness, Gary, Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Natalia Jiménez, Juan Lacomba, and Francisco Lagos.
"The Hidden Advantage of Delegation: Pareto-improvements in a Gift-exchange Game"
American Economic Review, 102, August, 2012, 2358-2379.
Coordinating lead authors: T. Evans, C. Hunsberger; Lead authors: T. M. Aide, J. Albaladejo Montoro, S. M. Borras Jr., H. F. del Valle, T. Devisscher, J. Jabbour, S. Kant, D. Lopez-Carr, H. Masundire, N. G. Pricope (GEO Fellow) and R. Sanchez-Rodriguez; Contributing authors: M. T. Abdelhamid, B. Alfthan, F. Ayache, A. A. Berhe, C. Chinweze, J. Frelichova, L. Hislop, W. K. Pan, B.Schulte-Herbruggen, J. Smith, C. Souza Jr.,T. L. Timmins (GEO Fellow) and L. C. Zulu.
"Part I: Assessment of the State and Trends of the Global Environment. Chapter 1: Land."
Fifth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 65-96. 2012.
McCrary, Justin, Heather Royer
"The Effect Of Female Education On Fertility And Infant Health: Evidence From School Entry Policies Using Exact Date Of Birth"
American Economic Review, 2011, 101(1): 158-195.
Gaulin, S.J.C. and W.D. Lassek
"Sex differences in the relationship of dietary fatty acids to cognitive measures in American children"
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 3. 2011
Friedkin, N.E. 2011
"Spine Segments in Small World Networks"
Social Networks 33:88-97.
Rios, V.M.
"The Trials and Tribulations of Urban Ethnography."
Fenstermaker, S. and Jones, N. Sociologists Backstage Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do. New York: Routledge. 2011
Research Themes:
Charles, Maria
"A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status"
Annual Review of Sociology 37:355-72. 2011
Rupp, Leila, Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Eds
"Feminist Frontiers (ninth edition)"
New York: McGraw-Hill. 2011
Research Themes:
Blackwell, Aaron D., Michael D. Gurven, Lawrence S. Sugiyama, Felicia C. Madimenos, Melissa A. Liebert, Melanie A. Martin, Hillard S. Kaplan, J. Josh Snodgrass
"Evidence for a Peak Shift in a Humoral Response to Helminths: Age Profiles of IgE in the Shuar of Ecuador, the Tsimane of Bolivia, and the U.S. NHANES"
2011
Weeks, Gregory B. and John R. Weeks
"Latin American Migration to the United States: A Multidisciplinary View"
The Latin Americanist, 55(4):5-8. 2011
Gurven, Michael, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan
"The Impact of Parents and Self-Selection on Child Survival among the Tsimane of Bolivia"
Current Anthropology 52(2):277-284. 2011
Charness, Gary, Peter Kuhn and Marie Claire Villeval.
"Competition and the Ratchet Effect"
Journal of Labor Economics, 29, July, 2011, 513-547
Barrett, Clark, Frank W. Marlowe, J. Colette Berbesque, Alexander Bolyanatz, Michael Gurven and David Tracer
"The 'spiteful' origins of human cooperation"
Proceedings of Royal Society B 278: 2159-2164. 2011
Charness, Gary, and Aldo Rustichini 
"Gender Differences in Cooperation with Group Membership"
Games and Economic Behavior, 72, May, 2011, 77-85
Research Themes:
Eakin, Hallie, Elisa Frank, David Lopez-Carr
"Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico"
Global Environmental Change (21)1 : 66-76. 2011.
Aswani, S.
"Hybridizing Customary and Modern Coastal Management for Conserving Marine Ecosystems in the Coral Triangle Region"
Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 14-30. 2011
Catherine Weinberger
"In Search of the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Earnings Growth among U.S. College Graduates in the 1990s"
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 64(5), October 2011.
Research Themes:
Aswani, S.
"Socio-ecological Approaches for Combining Ecosystem-based and Customary Management in Oceania"
Journal of Marine Biology doi:10.1155/2011/845385
Hanna, Rema, Paulina Oliva
"The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City"
2011
Gaulin, S.J.C, M. Krasnow, D. Truxaw, J. New, H. Ozono, S. Uono, T. Ueno, and K. Minemoto
"Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans."
Evolution and Human Behavior 32: 1-12. 2011
Blackwell, AD., FC Madimenos , JJ Snodgrass, MA Liebert, TJ Cepon, LS Sugiyama
"Normative calcaneal quantitative ultrasound datafor the indigenous Shuar and non-Shuar Colonos of the Ecuadorian Amazon"
Arch Osteoporo, 2011
Rios, V.M.
"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"
New York University Press. 2011
Research Themes:
Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor 
"Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp"
Pp. 217-230 in Sociologists Backstage:  Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do, eds. Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones.  New York:  Routledge. 2011
Charles, Maria
"What Gender is Science?"
Contexts 22-28. 2011
Research Themes:
Belch, George E., Joni A. Mayer, Susan I. Woodruff, Donald J. Slymen, James F. Sallis, Jean L. Forster, Elizabeth J. Clapp, KatherineD. Hoerster, Latrice C. Pichon, John R. Weeks, Martin A. Weinstock, and Todd Gilmer
"Adolescents' Use of Indoor Tanning: A large-scale evaluation of psychosocial, environmental, and policy level correlates"
American Journal of Public Health, 101(5):930-938, 2011.
Research Themes:
Gurven, Michael, Christopher von Rueden and Hillard Kaplan
"Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige"
Proceedings of Royal Society B 278: 2223-2232. 2011
Engstrom, Ryan, Marta M. Jankowska, and John R. Weeks
"Do the Most Vulnerable People Live in the Worst Slums? A Spatial Analysis of Accra, Ghana"
Annals of GIS, 17(4):221-235. 2011
Gurven, Michael, Jeffrey Winking, and Hillard Kaplan
"Father death and adult success among the Tsimane: implications for marriage and divorce"
Evolution and Human Behavior 32:79-89. 2011
Charness, Gary and Martin Dufwenberg
"Participation"
American Economic Review, 101, June, 2011, 1211-1237
Dalal, Pamela, Ian Jones, David López-Carr.
"Responding to Rural Health Disparities in the United States: The Geography of Emergency Care And Telemedical Technology"
Netcom. Issue 25, 3-4: 273-290. 2011.
Brandts, Jordi, and Gary Charness
"The Strategy versus the Direct-response Method: A First Survey of Experimental Comparisons"
Experimental Economics, 14, September, 2011, 375-398
Babcock, Philip, Mindy Marks
"The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data"
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93, No. 2, Pages 468-478. 2011
Research Themes:
Aswani, S., and A. Racelis
"Hopes and Disenchantments of Religious Community Forestry in the Western Solomon Islands"
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology, 6(1) 26-38. 2011
Deschênes, Olivier, Michael Greenstone
"Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (October 2011): 152-185. http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.3.4.152