Research
Publications
"Culture into Sustainability Science Research and Policy."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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"Testosterone is associated with enhanced cognitive performance in a subsistence population with minimal schooling."
American Journal of Human Biology. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22665.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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
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"What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?"
Briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families. November 5.
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"Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint."
American Sociological Review.
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"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.
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"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).
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"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.
"Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice"
The Feminist Wire, April 27
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"Structure of fisher (Martes pennanti) habitat in a managed forest in an interior Northern California coast range."
Forest Science 61(3), 481-493.
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"COMMENT: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature. 517: 265-267 (15 January 2015) * co-first authors
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"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.
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"Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation."
Social Forces 94: 61-86.
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"From the Lab to the Real World."
Science, 30 October, 2015, 512-513.
"Infection with helminths affects fecundity and age of first pregnancy in human females, in submission."
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"Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE."
Water Resour. Res.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2015WR017349.
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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"Helminth infection, fecundity and age of first pregnancy in women."
Science 350: 970-972.
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"Insidious procedures: Diversity awards legitimize unfair organizational procedures."
Social Justice Research, 28, 169-186. doi: 10.1007/s11211-015-0240-z
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"Merit Pay and Wage Compression with Productivity Differences and Uncertainty."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 117, September, 2015, 233-247.
"Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies."
Current Biology 25:1-7.
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"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.
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"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.
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"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.
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"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
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"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.
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"Estimating PMTCT's Impact on Heterosexual HIV Transmission: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis."
PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134271. (PMCID: PMC4532442).
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"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.
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"The low male voice is a costly signal of phenotypic quality among Bolivian adolescents."
Evolution and Human Behavior.
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"Race and Deviance: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys."
In Goode, Erich Wiley Handbook on Deviance.
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"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.
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"Forager skill ontogeny among Tsimane Amerindians."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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"Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography."
City and Community.
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"Evolutionary psychology."
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
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"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.
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"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
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"How the Myth of 'Lone Warrior' Entrepreneur Penalizes Women."
The Conversation. March 6.
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"Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation than Men?"
Economic Journal 125 (582) (February 2015) Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12122.
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"Adaptive personality calibration among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists: effects of embodied capital on prosocial traits."
Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv051
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"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography."
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
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"Leaning in at Work and at Home: Why Workplace Policies Matter."
The Conversation. January 29.
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"Attributions to discrimination: Antecedents and Consequences."
In T.D. Nelson (Ed.). Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"Challenging the inevitability of age-related prostate enlargement: low levels of benign hyperplasia among Bolivian Amerindians."
Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.
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"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
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"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
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"Is There a Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission of Care Work."
Sociological Science. 2:527-43.
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"Green Jobs."
In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright, 2015, pp. 372-378
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"It's fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.57, 100-110.
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"Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives."
The Journal of the European Economic Association. October 2015, 841-870.
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"Evolving the neuroendocrine physiology of human and primate cooperation and collective action."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 370: 20150014.
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"Suspicion of White people's motives relates to relative accuracy in detecting external motivation to respond without prejudice."
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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"The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010"
Future of Children. Fall 2015, 25(2): 29-50.
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"Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies."
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20150907.
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"Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature, 517: 265-267.
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"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.
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"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).
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"Low mineral density of a weight-bearing bone among adult women in a high fertility population."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
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"Differences in lobster fishing effort before and after MPA establishment"
Applied Geography. Volume 59, Pages 78-87.
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"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
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"Immigrants and Immigrant Health."
The Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller editors, Elsevier, 2015, 255-299.
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"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.
Research Themes:
"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.
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"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.
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"China's Grain for Green Policy and Farm Dynamics: Simulating Household Land-use Responses."
Regional Environmental Change. (DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0826-x)
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"Food sharing."
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. SAGE. Edited by Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn.
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"Stronger Work-Family Policies Help Women Build Better Businesses."
The Conversation. November 19.
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"Sexual dimorphism"
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
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"Promoting Health in Early Childhood."
Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64
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"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.
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"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).
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"State of the Field: Gender."
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. February 19.
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"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"
Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.
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"The extraversion continuum in evolutionary perspective: a review of recent theory and evidence."
Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 186-192.
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"Correlates of land use and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico."
World Development 70, 78-91.
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"Land cover and landscape changes in Shaanxi Province during China's Green for Green Program (2000-2010)."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment187(10): 1-14.
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"Simultaneous acquisition of functional magnetic resonance images and impedance cardiography."
Psychophysiology.
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"Are Virtual Environments the New Frontier in Obesity Management?"
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 650-658.
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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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"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."
Journal of Bioeconomics.
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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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"Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs."
PLoS ONE 9(4): e95167. 2014.
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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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"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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"Smoking Guns or Smoke & Mirrors?: Schools and the Policing of Latino Boys."
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal.
Research Themes:
"Place Utility"
in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.
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"Obtaining Critical Values for Test of Markov Regime Switching"
Stata Journal, 2014, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 481-498.
"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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"Identities, Selection, and Contributions in a Public-goods Game."
Games and Economic Behavior, 87, September, 2014, 322-338.