Research

Publications

Thébaud, Sarah and Amanda J. Sharkey. 2016. 
"Unequal Hard Times: The Influence of The Great Recession on Gender Bias in Entrepreneurial Investment Markets."
Sociological Science3:1-31. 
Research Themes:
John R. Weeks, Douglas A. Stow, and Li An. 2016.
"Demographics, Health Drivers & Impacts on Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana."
Stephen J. Walsh, editor, Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits (Oxford: Elsevier).
Sory Toure, Douglas Stow, Hsiang-chien Shih, Lloyd Coulter, John Weeks, Ryan Engstrom and Avery Sandborn. 2016.
"An object-based temporal inversion approach to urban land use change analysis."
Remote Sensing Letters.
Pan, WK., & Lopez-Carr, D. 2016. 
"Land use as a mediating factor of the Proximate Determinants of Fertility in rural Amazonia."
Population and Environment. 1-26.
Charness, Gary (with Ramón Cobo-Reyes and Ángela Sánchez). 2016.
"The Effect of Charitable Giving on Workers’ Performance: Experimental evidence"
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 61-74.
Research Themes:
Major, B., Kunstman, J., Sawyer, P., Townsend, S. & Mendes, W. B. 2016. 
"Suspicion of motives predicts minorities' responses to positive feedback in interracial interactions."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology,62, 75-88. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.007.
A.T. Murray and X. Feng. Forthcoming 2016. 
"Public street lighting service standard assessment and achievement."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 53.
Dover, T., Major, B. & Kaiser, C. R. (in press). 
"Diversity Structures, Status, and System-Justifying Beliefs: When Diversity Initiatives Backfire."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Blodorn, A., Major, B., Hunger, J.M. & Miller, C.T. 2016. 
"Unpacking the psychological weight of weight stigma: A rejection-expectation pathway."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63,69-76. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.003.
Research Themes:
R. Wei and A.T. Murray. 2016. 
"Spatial uncertainty challenges in location modeling with dispersion requirements."
Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems, edited by J.-C. Thill (New York: Springer). 
Deschenes, Olivier. 2016. 
"Children and Climate Change: Introducing the Issue (with J. Currie)."
Future of Children, Spring 2016, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 3-9
Blodorn, A., Major, B. & Kaiser, C. In press. 
"Perceived discrimination and poor health: Accounting for self-blame complicates a well-established relationship."
Social Science and Medicine. 
Research Themes:
Telles, Edward, René D. Flores and Fernando Urrea-Giraldo, 2015. 
"Pigmentocracies: Skin Color, Census Ethnoracial Categories and Educational Inequality in Eight Latin American Countries."
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 40: 39-58. 
Deschenes, Olivier. 2016.
"Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro)"
Journal of Political Economy, February 2016, Volume 124, Number 1, pp. 105-159
Hoyt, C.H, Burnette, J.L, Auster-Gussman, L., Blodorn, A, & Major, B. In press. 
"The obesity stigma asymmetry model: The indirect and divergent effects of blame and changeability beliefs on anti-fat prejudice."
Stigma and Health.
Research Themes:
Sear R, Lawson DW, Kaplan H, Shenk M. 2016. 
"Understanding variation in human fertility: What can we learn from evolutionary demography?"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150144.
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr. Forthcoming.
"Feeding the World: Population, Resources and Food"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards Sustainable Food Systems, edited by Colin Sage. London:  Routledge.
Pisor, A., Gurven, M. 2016. 
"Risk buffering and resource access shape valuation of out-group and in-group strangers."
Nature Scientific Reports.
Hedges S, Borgerhoff Mulder M, James S, Lawson DW. 2016. 
"Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania."
Evolution & Human Behavior 37:142-151.
Hendley, Alexandra and Maria Charles. 2016. 
"Gender Inequality in Education."
In Nancy Naples, ed. Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.
Research Themes:
Gurven, M., Yetish, G., Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Cummings, D., Blackwell, A.D., Beheim, B., Kaplan, H., Pontzer, H. 2016. 
"High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
Han, C.S., Martin, M.A., Dichosa, A.E.K., Daughton, A.R., Frietze, S., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M.D., Alcock, J. 2016.
"Salivary microbiomes of indigenous Tsimane mothers and infants are distinct despite frequent premastication."
PeerJ 4:e2660; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2660.
Rossin-Slater, Maya, Adam Isen, and W. Reed Walker. Forthcoming. 
"Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970."
Journal of Political Economy. 
Research Themes:
Barrett, H.C., Bolyanatz, A., Crittenden, A., Fessler, D., Fitzpatrick, S., Gurven, M., Henrich, J., Kanovsky, M., Kushnick, G., Pisor, A., Scelza, B., Stich, S., von Rueden, C., Zhao, W., Laurence, S. 2016. 
"Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment."
PNAS 113(17): 4688-4693.  
Jaeggi, A., Hooper, P., Beheim, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016.
"Reciprocal exchange patterned by market forces helps explain cooperation in a small-scale society."
Current Biology 26:1-8. + SUPPLEMENT.
López-Carr, D., Mwenda K.M.,  Pricope N.G., Kyriakidis P.C., Jankowska M.M., Weeks J., Funk C., Husak G., Michaelsen J. 2016. 
"Climate-Related Child Undernutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Health Surveys, NDVI, and Precipitation Data."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 9 (6):  2830 - 2835. 
Toren KG, Buskin SE, Dombrowski JC, Cassels S, Golden MR. 2016. 
"Time from HIV diagnosis to viral load suppression: 2007-2013."
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 43(1): 34-40. (PMCID: PMC4902572).
S. Kleinschmidt, A.T. Murray, S. Rey, L. Anselin and T.H. Grubesic. 2016
"Spatial uncertainty in cluster detection."
Spatial Information Research 24, 181-189.
Lloyd Coulter, Douglas A Stow, Yu-Hsin Tsai, Nicholas Ibanez, Hsiao-chien Shih, Andrew Kerr, Magdalena Benza, John R Weeks, and Foster Mensah. 2016.
"Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery."
Remote Sensing Environment.
Cassels S, Camlin CS. 2016. 
"Geographical mobility and heterogeneity of the HIV epidemic."
Published online first July 8 2016. The Lancet HIV.
I. Hong and A.T. Murray. 2016.
"Assessing raster GIS approximation for Euclidean shortest path routing."
Transactions in GIS 20, 570-584.
Steven Crook, Li An, John R. Weeks, and Douglas A. Stow. 2016.
"Latent Trajectory Modeling of Spatiotemporal Relationships between Land Cover and Land Use, Socioeconomics, and Obesity in Ghana."
Spatial Demography.
Witenko, V., Mireles-Rios, R. and Rios, V.M. 2016. 
"Networks of Encouragement: Who's encouraging Latino students and White students to enroll in honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses?"
Journal of Latinos and Education. 
Research Themes:
Thébaud, Sarah and David S. Pedulla. (equal authorship). 2016.
"Masculinity and the Stalled Revolution: How Gender Ideologies and Norms Shape Young Men's Responses to Work-Family Policies."
Gender & Society 30(4):590-617.
Research Themes:
Erin E. Conners, Joseph M. Vinetz, John R. Weeks, and Kimberly C. Brouwer. 2016.
"A global systematic review of Chagas disease prevalence among migrants."
Acta Tropica. 
A.T. Murray. Forthcoming 2016. 
"Assessing the impacts of traditional school year calendar start dates."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
Research Themes:
Charness, Gary (with Uri Gneezy and Brianna Sheets). 2016.
"Experimental Methods: Pay one or Pay All."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 131, November, 2016, 141-150.
Research Themes:
Dover, T., Major, B., & Kaiser, C.R. 2016. 
"Members of high-status groups are threatened by pro-diversity organizational messages."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 62,58-67. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.006.
I. Hong, A.T. Murray and L.J. Wolf. Forthcoming 2016. 
"Spatial filtering for identifying a shortest path around obstacles."
Geographical Analysis.
Amin Ghaziani, Verta Taylor, and Amy Stone. 2016.  
"Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements."
Annual Review of Sociology 42:165-183.
Research Themes:
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Major, B. Forster, D. , & Peng, K. 2016. 
"The Power of Affirming Group Values: Group Affirmation Buffers the Self-Esteem of Women Exposed to Blatant Sexism."
Self and Identity. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2016.1145593.
Research Themes:
T.H. Grubesic, R. Wei, A.T. Murray and F. Wei. 2016. 
"Essential Air Service in the United States: exploring strategies to enhance spatial and operational efficiencies."
International Regional Science Review 39, 108-130. 
Charness, Gary,Ramón Cobo-Reyes, Juan Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, and Jose Maria Perez. 2016. 
"Social Comparisons in Wage Delegation: Experimental Evidence."
Experimental Economics. June 2016, 433-459.
Ryan, W., Hunger, J. & Major, B. In press. 
"Understanding LGB Mental and Physical Health Disparities Through the Lens of Stigma and Social Identity Threat."
Journal of Social Issues.
Research Themes:
Thébaud, Sarah. 2016. 
"In Countries with Little Work-Family Support, Many Women Opt for Self-Employment."
London School of Economics Business Review. January 12. 
Research Themes:
Davenport, F., D. Steigerwald, and S. Sweeney. 2016. 
"Open trade, price supports, and regional price behavior in Mexican maize markets."
Economic Geography. 
Blackwell, A.D., Trumble, B.C., Maldonado Suarez, I., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B., Snodgrass, J.J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016. 
"Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists."
Annals of Human Biology 43(4):382-396.
Lawson DW & Borgerhoff Mulder M. 2016. 
"The offspring quantity-quality trade-off and human fertility variation."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150145.
Shelly Lundberg (with Robert Pollak and Jenna Stearns). 2016.
"Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing."
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2016, 30(2): 79-102.
Research Themes:
Gurven, M., Costa, M., Trumble, B., Stieglitz, J., Beheim, B., Eid Rodriguez, D., Hooper, P.L., Kaplan, H. 2016. 
"Costs of reproduction and maternal depletion in a high fertility and mortality population."
Nature Scientific Reports 6:30056.  
Gurven, M., Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Blackwell, A.D., Michalik, D.E., Finch, C.E., Kaplan, H. 2016
"Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes in evolutionary perspective: a critical role for helminths?"
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 338-357. doi:10.1093/emph/eow028.
Rossin-Slater, Maya. Forthcoming. 
"Signing Up New Fathers: Do Paternity Establishment Initiatives Increase Marriage, Parental Investment, and Child Well-Being"
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Research Themes:
Stieglitz, J., Madimenos, F., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2016. 
"Calcaneal quantitative ultrasound indicates reduced bone mineral status among physically active adult forager-horticulturalists."
J. of Bone and Mineral Research 31(3): 663-671. 
Horvath, S., Gurven, M., Levine, M.E., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Allayee, H., Ritz, B.R., Chen, B., Lu, A., Rickabaugh, T.M., Jamieson, B.D., Sun, D., Li, S., Chen, W., Quintana-Murci, L., Fagny, M., Kobor, M.S., Tsao, P.S., Reiner, A.P., Edlefsen, K.L., Absher, D., Assimes, T.L. 2016.
"An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease."
Genome Biology 17:171. DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-1030-0.
Charness, Gary (with Angelino Viceisza). 2016.
"Comprehension and Risk Elicitation in the Field: Evidence from Rural Senegal."
Review of Behavioral Economics, 3, July, 2016, 145-171
Jaeggi, A.V., Boose, K.J., White, F.J., Gurven, M. 2016. 
"Obstacles and catalysts of cooperation in humans, bonobos and chimpanzees: the behavioural reaction norms can help explain variation in sex roles, inequality, war and peace."
Behaviour. DOI:10.1163/1568539X-00003347
T.H. Grubesic, R. Wei, A.T. Murray and W.A. Pridemore. 2016.
"Comparative approaches for assessing access to alcohol outlets: exploring the utility of a gravity potential approach."
Population Health Metrics 14, 25 (DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0097-x).
John Foran, Summer Gray, and Corrie Ellis Grosse. Forthcoming. 
"The New Political Cultures of Opposition and Creation in the Global Youth Climate Justice Movement."
Ecological Resistance Movements in the 21st Century: The Continuing Global Struggle for Biocultural Survival and Multispecies Justice, edited by Bron Taylor, Ursula Münster, and Joseph Witt. *equal authorship 
Roberts ST, Khanna A, Barnabas RV, Goodreau SM, Baeten JM, Celum C, Cassels S. 2016. 
"Estimating the impact of universal antiretroviral therapy for HIV serodiscordant couples through home HIV testing: Insights from mathematical models."
JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 19:20864. (PMCID: PMC4865806).
P.V. Amaral and A.T. Murray. 2016.
"Equity in regional access to renal dialysis in Brazil."
Regional Science Policy & Practice 8, 27-44.
Magdalena Benza, John R. Weeks, Douglas A. Stow, David López-Carr, Keith C. Clarke. 2016. 
"A pattern-based definition of urban context using remote sensing and GIS."
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 183: 250-264
Thébaud, Sarah. 2016. 
"Passing up the Job: The Role of Gendered Organizations and Families in the Entrepreneurial Career Process."
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 
Research Themes:
R. Wei and A.T. Murray. 2016.
"A parallel algorithm for coverage optimization on multi-core architectures."
International Journal of Geographical Information Science 30, 432-450.
Douglas Stow, John R. Weeks, Hsiao-chien Shih, Lloyd Coulter, Yu-Hsin Tsai, Andrew Kerr, and Foster Mensah. 2016.
"Inter-regional pattern of urbanization in southern Ghana in the first decade of the new millennium."
Journal of Applied Geography.
Parra, E., Ruiz-Linares, J.,Lopez-Carr, D. 2016 in press. 
"Una visión geográfica a los parques urbanos de Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia."
Perspectiva Geográfica. 
Charness, Gary (with Luca Rigotti and Aldo Rustichini). 2016.
"Social Surplus Determines Cooperation Rates in the One-shot Prisoner's Dilemma."
Games and Economic Behavior, 100, November, 2016, 113-124.
Research Themes:
Hsiao-chien Shih, Douglas A. Stow, John R. Weeks, and Lloyd Coulter. 2016.
"Determining the Type and Starting Time of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana Based on Discrete Analysis of Dense Landsat Image Time Series."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), .
Erika Arenas, Bongoh Kye, Graciela Teruel and Luis Rubalcava. 2016.
"The impact of education and health heterogeneity on Generational Support Ratios in Mexico"
Ageing and Society, 1-38, doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000751
Dover, T., Kaiser, C.R. & Major, B. 2016.  
"Diversity policies don't make organizations fairer and they threaten white men."
 Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2016/01/diversity-policies-dont-help-women-or-minorities...
A.T. Murray. 2016.
"Maximal coverage location problem: impacts, significance and evolution."
International Regional Science Review 39, 5-27. 
Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Shaeleya D. Miller. 2016.  
"Learning to be Queer: College Women's Sexual Fluidity."
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 3rd edition, edited by Nancy Fischer and Steven Seidman.  New York: Routledge.
Research Themes:
Shaeleya D. Miller, Verta Taylor, and Leila J. Rupp. 2016.  
"Social Movements and the Construction of Queer Identity."
Pp. 443-470 in Advances in Identity Theory and Research, Volume II, edited by Jan E. Stets and Richard Serpe. New York: Oxford University Press.
Research Themes:
Jose Vicente Tavares dos Santos and Edward Telles (eds.) 
"Global Frontiers in Social Control and Deviance."
Under Contract with Springer Press. 
Charness, Gary,Jordi Brandts and Matthew Ellman. 2016. 
"Let's Talk: How Communication Affects Contract Design."
Journal of the European Economic Association. 943-974.
Richman, L., Blodorn, A. & Major, B. In press. 
"An identity-based model of discrimination and health behaviors: Implications for Health Disparities."
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Research Themes:
Grace, K. and S. Sweeney. 2016. 
"Ethnic dimensions of Guatemala's stalled transition: A parity- specific analysis of Ladino and indigenous fertility regimes."
Demography 53(1), 117-138.
Deschenes, Olivier with S. Gaines and A. Larsen. 2015.
"Spatiotemporal Variation in the Relationship Between Landscape Simplification and Insecticide Use."
Ecological Applications
Lassek, W. D. and S. J. C. Gaulin. 2015. 
"Reproductive fat. "
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
Blodorn, A. & Major, B. (in press) Stigma.  In H. Miller (Ed.), 
"Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology"
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. 
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:
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. 
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:
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).
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.
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:
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
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:
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. 
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"Stronger Work-Family Policies Help Women Build Better Businesses."
The Conversation. November 19. 
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, with Patricia Greene. 2015. 
"State of the Field: Gender."
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. February 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.