broom center for demography

Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Soubhana, A., Gurven, M., Blackwell, A.D., Gaulin, S.J.C. 2019.

"Testosterone is positively and estradiol negatively associated with mucosal immunity in Amazonian adolescents. "

American Journal of Human Biology 31:e23284.

Research Themes:

Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., HORUS, Finch, C., Li, D., Budoff, M., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2019.

"Computed tomography shows high fracture prevalence among physically active forager-horticulturalists with high fertility. "

eLife 8:e48607.

Research Themes:

von Rueden, C., Redhead, D., O’Gorman, R., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2019.

"The dynamics of men’s cooperation and social status in a small-scale society. "

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286:20191367.

Research Themes:

Paola Bacchetta, Sunaina Maira, and Howard Winant, editors. 2019.

"Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, Decoloniality. "

New Racial Studies series book. New York: Routledge.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Wikle, Jocelyn S., Elizabeth Ackert, and Alexander C. Jensen. 2019.

"Companionship patterns and emotional states during social interactions for adolescents with and without siblings. "

Journal of Youth and Adolescence 48, no. 11: 2190-2206.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

Ackert, Elizabeth, Robert Crosnoe, and Tama Leventhal. 2019.

"New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children. "

Demography 56, no. 5: 1607-1634.

Research Themes:

Deschenes, O, (with W. Botzen and M. Sanders). 2019.

"The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Review of Models and Empirical Studies. "

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 13, pp. 167–188 https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rez004

Research Themes:

Ackert, Elizabeth, Amy Spring, Kyle Crowder, and Scott J. South. 2019.

"Kin location and racial disparities in exiting and entering poor neighborhoods. "

Social science research 84: 102346.

Research Themes:

Verdin, A., Chris Funk, C., Peterson, P., Landsfeld, M., Tuholske, C., & Grace, K. 2019.

"Development and validation of the CHIRTS-daily quasi-global high-resolution daily temperature data set. "

Scientific Data.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW. 2019.

"Parental care."

In Koster J, Scelza B, Shenk M (Eds). Human Behavioral Ecology.

Research Themes:

Hassan A, Schaffnit SB, Sear R, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Fathers favour sons, mothers don’t discriminate: sex-biased parental care in north-western Tanzania. "

Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1, e13.

Research Themes:

Lawson DW & Gibson MA. 2019.

"Evolutionary Approaches to Population Health: Insights on Polygynous Marriage, ‘Child Marriage’ and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. "

Burger O, Lee R & Sear, R. (Eds). Human Evolutionary Demography.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB. Hassan A, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Parent-offspring conflict unlikely to explain ‘child marriage’ in northwestern Tanzania. "

Nature Human Behaviour. 3:346-353.

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Lawson DW, Todd J, Urassa M & Sear R. 2019.

"Sharing the load: the influence of co-resident children on the allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania. "

Demography.

Research Themes:

Schaffnit SB, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"‘Child marriage’ in context: Exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania. "

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. 27:1

Research Themes:

Nella Van Dyke and Verta Taylor. 2019.

"Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements. "

Pp. 482-498 in Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, 2nd Edition, edited by David Snow, Sarah Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi and Holly McCammon. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Research Themes:

Tuholske, C., Caylor, K., Evans, T., & Avery, R. 2019.

"Variability in urban population distributions across Africa."

Environmental Research Letters.

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Sear R, Todd J, Urassa M & Lawson DW. 2019.

"Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. "

Demographic Research.

Research Themes:

Verta Taylor. 2019.

"Tactical Repertoires of Contention. "

Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft. New York: Wiley Blackwell.

Research Themes:

Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor. 2019.

"Drag Queens and Kings."

Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft. New York: Wiley Blackwell.

Research Themes:

Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2019.

"Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. "

New York: Oxford University Press.

Research Themes:

Speroni, Cecilia, Alison Wellington, Paul Burkander, Hanley Chiang, Mariesa Herrmann, and Kristin Hallgren. Forthcoming.

"Do Educator Performance Incentives Help Students? Evidence from the Teacher Incentive Fund National Evaluation. "

Journal of Labor Economics.

Research Themes:

Telles, Edward and Albert Esteve. 2019.

"Racial Intermarriage in the Americas."

Sociological Science 6: 293-320.

Research Themes:

A.T. Murray and T.H. Grubesic. 2019.

"Evolving regional analytics in a rural world. "

International Regional Science Review 42, 374-399 (DOI: 10.1177/0160017619827071).

Research Themes:

X Yu Hsin Tsai, Douglas A. Stow, David Lopez-Carr, John R. Weeks, Keith C. Clarke, and Foster Mensah, 2019.

"Monitoring Forest Cover Change Within Different Reserve Types in Southern Ghana."

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Population Health and Environment

J. Yao, X. Zhang and A.T. Murray. 2019.

"Location optimization of urban fire stations: accessibility and service coverage. "

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 73, 184-190 (DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.10.006).

Research Themes:

X Holly Shakya, John R. Weeks, and Nicholas Christakis. 2019.

"Do Village-Level Normative and Network Factors Help Explain Spatial Variability in Adolescent Childbearing in Rural Honduras? "

Social Science and Medicine--Population Health 9 (100371).

Research Themes:

Heather Royer (With Mariana Carrera, Mark Stehr, and Justin Sydnor). 2019.

"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"

Management Science (Also NBER Working Paper #23188).

Research Themes:

Shelly Lundberg (with Jenna Stearns). 2019.

"Women in Economics: Stalled Progress"

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2019, 33(1): 3-22

Research Themes:

Verta Taylor, Nancy Whittier, and Leila J. Rupp. 2019.

"Feminist Frontiers."

10th edition. New York: Roman Littlefield.

Research Themes:

Education and Health, Sex and Gender

Charness, Gary, with Catherine Eckel, Uri Gneezy, and Agne Kajackaite. Forthcoming.

"Complexity in Risk Elicitation May Affect the Conclusions: A Demonstration Using Gender Differences."

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, with Daniela Grieco. 2019.

"Creativity and Financial Incentives."

Journal of the European Economic Association.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, with Tibor Neugebauer. Forthcoming.

"A Test of the Modigliani-Miller Invariance Theorem and Arbitrage Experimental Asset Markets."

Journal of Finance.

Research Themes:

Krell, Natasha. 2018.

"Innovations in mobile phone services for agriculture decision-making in Kenya."

Research Themes:

Gurven, M. 2018.

"Broadening horizons: sample diversity and socioecological theory are essential to the future of psychological science. "

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(45):11420-11427 A

Research Themes:

Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Food sharing models. "

International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. H. Callan (Ed.) doi:10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1655

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, with Chun-Lei Yang, Boyu Zhang, Jaimie Lien, and Cong Liu

"Endogenous reward promotes cooperation."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(40), 9968-9973

Research Themes:

Klein, L.D., Huang, J., Quinn, E.A., Martin, M., Breakey, A., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Valeggia, C., Jasienska, G., Scelza, B., Lebrilla, C., Hinde, K. 2018

"Variation among populations in the immune protein composition of mother’s milk reflects subsistence pattern. "

Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2018(1): 230-245.

Research Themes:

Thébaud, Sarah and Maria Charles. 2018.

"Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM."

Social Sciences 7(7):1-19.

Research Themes:

Hopp, Frederic R., Cornell., Devin J., Fisher, Jacob T., Huskey, Richard, Weber, René. 2018.

"The Moral Foundations Dictionary for News (MFD-N): A Crowd-Sourced Moral Foundations Dictionary for the Automated Analysis of News Corpora. "

Communications Association Annual Meeting.

Research Themes:

Gurven, M. 2018.

"Review of The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life. "

Human Nature 29(4):468-474.

Research Themes:

Kraft, T.†, Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B., Martin, M., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Nutrition transition in two lowland Bolivian subsistence populations."

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 108(6):1183-1195.

Research Themes:

Venkataraman, V.V., Yegian, A.K., Wallace, I.J., Holowka, N., Tacey, I., Gurven, M., Kraft, T.S.† 2018.

"Locomotor constraints favour the evolution of the human pygmy phenotype in tropical rainforests. "

Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20181492.

Research Themes:

Tuholske, C., Andam, K. S., Blekking, J., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. 2018.

"Measures and Determinants of Urban Food Security: Evidence from Accra, Ghana. "

(Vol. 50). Intl Food Policy Res Inst.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lawson DW & Gibson MA. (2018)

"Understanding ‘Harmful Cultural Practices.’ "

Anthropology News 59: 3; e219-e222.

Research Themes:

Delgado Helleseter, Miguel, Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen. 2018.

"The Age Twist in Employers’ Gender Preferences: Evidence from Four Job Boards. "

Journal of Human Resources.

Research Themes:

Panlasigui, S., Rico-Straffon, J., Pfaff, A., Swenson, J., & Loucks, C. 2018

"Impacts of certification, uncertified concessions, and protected areas on forest loss in Cameroon, 2000 to 2013."

Biological conservation, 227, 160-166.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Yahirun, Jenjira, and Erika Arenas. 2018.

"Offspring Migration and Parents' Emotional and Psychological Well-being in Mexico."

Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(4) 975-991.

Research Themes:

Ross, C.T., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Oh, S-Y., Bowles, S., Beheim, B., Bunce, J., Caudell, M., Clark, G., Colleran, H., Cortez, C., Draper, P., Greaves, R., Gurven, M., Headland, T., Headland, J., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Kaplan, H., Koster, J., Kramer, K., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Nolin, D., Quinlan, M., Quinlan, R., Revilla-Minaya, C., Scelza, B., Schacht, R., Shenk, M., Uehara, R., Voland, E., WillfÃ¼hr, K., Winterhalder, B., Ziker, J. 2018.

"Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model."

J. Royal Society Interface 20180035.

Research Themes:

Costa, M.E., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M.D. 2018.

"Child nutritional status among births exceeding ideal family size in a high fertility population."

Maternal & Child Nutrition e12625.

Research Themes:

Schniter, E., Wilcox, N.T., Beheim, B.A., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Information transmission and the oral tradition: evidence of a late-life service niche for Tsimane Amerindians."

Evolution and Human Behavior 39:94-105.

Research Themes:

In Press. Ervin D., Tuholske, C., and D. López-Carr. 2018.

"The Geography of Malnutrition."

Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield

Research Themes:

Stieglitz, J., Trumble, B.C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. In press.

"Marital violence and fertility in a relatively egalitarian high fertility population."

Nature Human Behaviour.

Research Themes:

Howard Winant. Forthcoming 2018.

"Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality."

New York: Routledge, "A New Racial Studies Book."

Research Themes:

Lopez-Carr, D., Kimbombo, R., Ondego, D., Asiimwe, W. 2018.

"Health of the People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin."

(HOPE-LVB) Evaluation.

Research Themes:

Charness, Gary, with Uri Gneezy and Austin Henderson. 2018.

"Experimental Methods: Measuring Effort in Economics Experiments"

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 149, May, 2018, 74-87.

Research Themes:

Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. Forthcoming.

"Varieties of Indigeneity in Latin America."

Social Forces.

Research Themes:

Family Demography, Sex and Gender

Lawson DW, Gibson MA. 2018.

"Polygynous marriage and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa: What is the evidence for harm?"

Demographic Research 39: 177-208.

Research Themes:

Luo W, Katz DA, Hamilton DT, McKenney J, Jenness SM, Goodreau SM, Stekler JD, Rosenberg ES, Sullivan PS, Cassels S. 2018.

"Development of an agent-based model to investigate the impact of HIV self-testing programs on men who have sex with men in Atlanta and Seattle."

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 4(2):e58. (PMCID: PMC6045793)

Research Themes:

X. Feng and A.T. Murray. 2018.

"Spatial analytics for enhancing street light coverage of public spaces."

LEUKOS. 14, 13-23 (DOI: 10.1080/15502724.2017.1321486).

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier with A. Barreca, and M. Guldi. 2018.

"Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates."

Demography, Volume 55, pp. 1269-1293

Research Themes:

Luo W, Gao P, Cassels S. 2018.

"A large-scale location-based social network to understanding the impact of human geo-social interaction patterns on vaccination strategies in an urbanized area."

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.06.008

Research Themes:

S. Wang, S. Gao, X. Feng, A.T. Murray and M. Zeng. 2018.

"A context-based geoprocessing framework for optimizing meetup location of multiple moving objects along road networks."

International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 32, 1368-1390 (DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1431838).

Research Themes:

Voth-Gaeddert, L. E., Stoker, M., Cornell, D. J., & Oerther, D. B. 2018.

"What causes childhood stunting among children of San Vicente, Guatemala: Employing complimentary, system-analysis approaches"

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 1-6.

Research Themes:

Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Sleep variability and nighttime activity regulate sleep patterns among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists."

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166(3):590-600.

Research Themes:

Gurven MD, Finch CE, Wann LS. 2018.

"Are intestinal worms nature's anti-atherosclerosis vaccine?"

European Heart Journal 2018; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehy129

Research Themes:

Charness, Garyand Greg DeAngelo. 2018.

"Law and Economics in the Laboratory"

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics.

Pisor, A., Gurven, M. 2018.

"When to diversify, and with whom? Choosing partners among out-group strangers in lowland Bolivia."

Evolution and Human Behavior 39(1):30-39.

Research Themes:

Byrne, Janice, Salma Fattoum and Sarah Thébaud. 2018.

"A Suitable Boy? Gendered Roles and Hierarchies in Family Business Succession"

European Management Review.

Research Themes:

Brissett, D. I., Tuholske, C., Allen, I. E., Larios, N. S., Mendoza, D. J., Murillo, A. G., & Bloch, E. M. 2018.

"Zika Virus: Knowledge Assessment of Residents and Health-Care Providers in Roatán, Honduras, following an Outbreak."

The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0014

Research Themes:

S Fischer, H Royer, C White. 2018.

"The Impacts of Reduced Access to Abortion and Family Planning Services on Abortions, Births, and Contraceptive Purchases."

Journal of Public Economics. 167: 43-68.

Research Themes:

Gibson MA & Lawson DW. 2018.

"Population issues in development. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology."

Wiley.

Research Themes:

Telles, Edward. 2018.

"Race, Latinos and the U.S. Census."

The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science. 677(1): 153 - 164.

Research Themes:

Jaeggi, A.V., Gurven, M. In press.

"Food sharing models."

International Encyclopedia of Anthropology.

Research Themes:

Anna H. Chatillon, Maria Charles, and Karen Bradley. 2018.

"Gender Ideology."

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, Pp. 217-226, Barbara J. Risman, Carissa Froyum, and William Scarborough, eds. NY: Springer.

Research Themes:

Camlin C, Cassels S, Seeley J. 2018.

"Editorial: Bringing population mobility into focus to achieve HIV prevention goals."

JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 21(S4):e25136. (PMCID: PMC6053544)

Research Themes:

Deschenes, Olivier with P. Zhang, K. Meng, and J. Zhang. 2018.

"Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants."

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 88, Number 3, pp. 1-17.

Research Themes:

Saldívar, Emiko, Patricio SolÃs, and Erika Arenas. 2018.

"Consideraciones metodológicas para el conteo de la población afromexicana en el Censo 2020."

Conyuntura Demográfica.

Research Themes:

von Rueden, C., Alami, S., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Sex differences in political leadership in an egalitarian society."

Evolution and Human Behavior 39(4):402-411.

Research Themes:

Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Jaeggi, A., Beheim, B., Schwartz, M., Seabright, E., Cummings, D., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Parental hormones are associated with crop loss and family sickness following catastrophic flooding in lowland Bolivia."

Physiology and Behavior 193A:101-107.

Research Themes:

Alami, S., Stieglitz, J., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2018.

"Low perceived control is associated with treatment seeking among high mortality Bolivian forager-farmers."

Social Science and Medicine 200:156-165. + SUPPLEMENT.

Research Themes:

Heather McGee Hurwitz and Verta Taylor. 2018.

"Women Occupying Wall Street: Gender Conflict and Feminist Mobilization."

Pp. 334-355. 100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Research Themes:

van der Linden, D., Dunkel, C., Figueredo, A.J., Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Woodley of Menie, M. 2018.

"How universal is the general factor of personality? An analysis of the Big Five in forager farmers of the Bolivian Amazon."

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1-17.

Research Themes:

Charles, Maria and Sarah Thébaud, eds. Forthcoming.

"Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."

Basel: MDPI Press.

Research Themes:

Elwell, T.L., Gelcich, S., Gaines, S.D., Lopez-Carr, D. 2018.

"Using people's perceptions of ecosystem services to guide modeling and management efforts."

Volumes 637-638, Pages 1014-1025.

Research Themes:

Weinberger, C. 2018.

"Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science"

in U.S. Engineering in the Global Economy, edited by Richard Freeman and Hal Salzman, National Bureau of Economic Research/University of Chicago Press.

Research Themes:

Lundberg, Shelly. 2018.

"Non-Cognitive Skills as Human Capital."

Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future U.S. GDP Growth, eds. Charles Hulten and Valerie Ramey, NBER/CRIW: University of Chicago Press.

Research Themes:

Family Demography

M Carrera, H Royer, M Stehr, J Sydnor. 2018.

"Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? Experimental evidence with new gym members."

Journal of Health Economics 58, 202-214.

Research Themes:

Hedges S, Sear R ,Todd J, Urassa M, & Lawson DW. 2018.

"Trade-offs in children's time allocation: Mixed support for embodied capital models of the demographic transition in Tanzania."

Current Anthropology.

Research Themes:

Telles, Edward and Vilma Ortiz. Forthcoming.

"La Integracion de Mexico-Americanos en Estados Unidos."

Nexos (Mexico).

Research Themes:

Thébaud, Sarah and Maria Charles. 2018.

"Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM."

Social Sciences 7(7):1-19.

Research Themes:

Cassels S, Camlin C, Seeley. 2018.

"One Step Ahead: timing and sexual networks in population mobility and HIV prevention and care."

JIAS: Journal of the International AIDS Society 21(S4):e25140. (PMCID: PMC6053478)

Research Themes:

Wong, M., Bejarano, E., Carvlin, G., Fellows, K., King, G., Lugo, H., Jerrett, M., Meltzer D., Northcross, A., Olmedo, L., Seto, E., Wilkie, A., English, P. 2018.

"Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network."

International journal of environmental research and public health 15.3 (2018): 523.

Research Themes:

L. Conrow, A.T. Murray and H.A. Fischer. 2018.

"An optimization approach for equitable bicycle share station siting."

Journal of Transport Geography, 69, 163-170 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.023).

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Chua, K. J., Lukaszewski, A. W., Grant, D. M., & Sng, O. 2017.

"Human life history strategies: Calibrated to external or internal cues? "

Evolutionary Psychology, 15(1), 1-16.

Research Themes:

Clauss, N., Byrd-Craven, J., & Kennison, S. M., & Chua, K. J. 2017.

"The roles of mothers’ partner satisfaction and mother-infant communication duration in mother-infant adrenocortical attunement."

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1-17.

Research Themes:

Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment

Rios, V.M. 2017.

"Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Culture of Control."

University of Chicago Press.

Research Themes:

John R. Weeks. 2017.

"Demographic Transition Theory. "

Bryan S. Turner, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell Publishing Co.).

Research Themes: