Research

Publications

Yetish, G., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M., Wood, B., Pontzer, H., Manger, P., Wilson, C., McGregor, R., Siegel, J.M. 2015. 
"Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies."
Current Biology 25:1-7. 
Hendley, Alexandra and Maria Charles. 2015.
"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.
Research Themes:
Shelly Lundberg. 2015.
"The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Renew or Replace?"
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, special issue 40(1-4): 433-436.  
Research Themes:
Stieglitz, J., Schniter, E., von Rueden, C., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2015.
"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. 
Arielle Sarah Levine, Laurie Richmond,David Lopez-Carr. (2015) 
"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
Oliva, Paulina. 2015. 
"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.
Khanna A, Roberts ST, Cassels S, Ying R, John-Stewart G, Goodreau SM, Baeten JM, Murnane P, Celum C, Barnabas RV. 2015.
"Estimating PMTCT's Impact on Heterosexual HIV Transmission: A Mathematical Modeling Analysis."
PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134271. (PMCID: PMC4532442).
Shannon Gleeson, David López-Carr, (2015). 
"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.
Hodges-Simeon, C.R., Gurven, M., Gaulin, S.J.C. 2015.
"The low male voice is a costly signal of phenotypic quality among Bolivian adolescents."
Evolution and Human Behavior. 
Rios, V.M. 2015
"Race and Deviance: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys."
In Goode, Erich Wiley Handbook on Deviance. 
Research Themes:
Maryam Alaeddini, David López-Carr (2015). 
"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.
Schniter, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H., Wilcox, N.T., Hooper, P. 2015. 
"Forager skill ontogeny among Tsimane Amerindians."
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 
Rios, V.M. 2015. 
"Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography."
City and Community. 
Gaulin, S. J. C. 2015. 
"Evolutionary psychology."
In Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, W. Trevathan, Ed. Wiley/Blackwell: New York.
S. Toure, D. Stow, L. Coulter, A. Sanborn, D. López-Carr (2015).
"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.
Ryan Engstrom, Avery Sandborn, Yu Qin, Jason Burgdorfer, Douglas Stow, John Weeks, and Jordan Graesser. 2015. 
"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
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"How the Myth of 'Lone Warrior' Entrepreneur Penalizes Women."
The Conversation. March 6.
Research Themes:
Kuhn, Peter and Marie Claire Villeval. 2015.
"Are Women More Attracted to Cooperation than Men?"
Economic Journal 125 (582) (February 2015) Doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12122.
Research Themes:
Lukaszewski, A., von Rueden, C., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Adaptive personality calibration among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists: effects of embodied capital on prosocial traits."
Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv051
Weeks, John R. Demography is an Inherently Spatial Science, in Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, and Stephen A. Matthews. In press. 
"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory In Spatial Demography."
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
David S. Pedulla and Sarah Thébaud. 2015. 
"Leaning in at Work and at Home: Why Workplace Policies Matter."
The Conversation. January 29. 
Research Themes:
Major, B, & Dover, T. 2015.
"Attributions to discrimination: Antecedents and Consequences."
In T.D. Nelson (Ed.). Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press. 
Rossin-Slater, Maya, Janet Currie. 2015. 
"Early-life Origins of Lifecycle Wellbeing: Research and Policy Implications."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 34(1): 208-242.
Royer, Heather with Mark Stehr and Justin Sydnor. 2015
"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.
Research Themes:
Mwenda K.M., Kyriakidis P.C., López-Carr, D. 2015. 
"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.
Miller, Shaeleya and Verta Taylor. 2015. 
"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.
Research Themes:
Trumble BC, Eid Rodriguez D, Cortez Linares E, Kaplan H, Gurven M. (2015).  
"Challenging the inevitability of age-related prostate enlargement: low levels of benign hyperplasia among Bolivian Amerindians."
Journal of Gerontology:  Medical Sciences.
Grosse, Corrie Ellis. 2016. 
"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
Research Themes:
Steiglitz, J, Trumble, B, Emery Thompson, M, Blackwell, AD, Kaplan, H, Gurven, M. (2015)
"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
Charles, Maria, Corrie Ellis Grosse and Paula England. 2015.
"Is There a Caring Class? Intergenerational Transmission of Care Work."
Sociological Science. 2:527-43.
Research Themes:
Deschenes, Olivier. 2015. 
"Green Jobs."
In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright, 2015, pp. 372-378
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:
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. 
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:
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. 
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.
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).
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
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:
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. 
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:
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. 2015. 
"Stronger Work-Family Policies Help Women Build Better Businesses."
The Conversation. November 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.
Rossin-Slater, Maya. 2015. 
"Promoting Health in Early Childhood."
Future of Children, 25(2): 35-64
Research Themes:
C. Tuholske, D. López-Carr, Dar Robers (2015). 
"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. 
Marta M. Jankowska, Justin Stoler, Caetlin Ofiesh, David Rain, and John R. Weeks. 2015. 
"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).
Thébaud, Sarah, with Patricia Greene. 2015. 
"State of the Field: Gender."
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. February 19. 
Research Themes:
Lundberg, Shelly. 2015.
"Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes"
Research in Labor Economics. 41: 177-212.
Research Themes:
Lukaszewski, A. & C. von Rueden. 2015. 
"The extraversion continuum in evolutionary perspective: a review of recent theory and evidence."
Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 186-192. 
Eakin, H., K. Appendini, S. Sweeney, and H. Perales. 2015. 
"Correlates of land use and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico."
World Development 70, 78-91. 
Chen, H., Marter-Kenyon, J., Lopez-Carr, D. and Liang, X. 2015. 
"Land cover and landscape changes in Shaanxi Province during China's Green for Green Program (2000-2010)."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment187(10): 1-14.
Rios, V.M. and Guzman, Melissa. 2015.
"Latino Youth and Criminal Justice."
In Morin, Jose Luis Latinas/os and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
Research Themes:
Thébaud, Sarah. 2015. 
"Business as Plan B? Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries."
Administrative Science Quarterly 60(4):671-711.
Research Themes:
Stearns, Jenna. 2015.
"The Effects of Paid Maternity Leave: Evidence from Temporary Disability Insurance."
Journal of Health Economics, 43: 85-102.
Research Themes:
Charess, Gary and Arthur Schram. 2015. 
"Inducing Norms in Laboratory Allocation Choices."
Management Science. July 2015, 1531-1546.
Snipes SA, Hayes-Constant TK, Trumble BC, Goodreau SM, Morrison DM, Shell-Duncan B, Pelman RS, O’Connor KA.  (2015). 
"Masculine perspectives about family and work concurrently promote and inhibit men's health behaviors."
International Journal of Men's Health.
Grosse, Corrie Ellis. 2016. 
"Scholar Activism and Reciprocity: The Fight Against Fracking in Idaho."
Practicing Anthropology38(3):28-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-38.3.28
Urlacher, SS, Blackwell, AD, Liebert, MA, Madimenos, FC, Cepon-Robins, TJ, Gildner, TE, Snodgrass, JJ, Sugiyama, LS. (2015)
"Physical Growth of the Shuar: Height, Weight, and BMI Growth References for an Indigenous Amazonian Population,"
American Journal of Human Biology, in press.
David López-Carr, Kevin M. Mwenda, Narcisa G. Pricope, Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Marta M. Jankowska, John Weeks, Chris Funk, Gregory Husak, and Joel Michaelsen. 2015.  
"A spatial statistical analysis of climate-related child malnutrition in the lake victoria basin."
Proceedings of the 2015 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(IGARSS) Conference. Milan, Italy. pp. 2564-25-67.
Pisor, A., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Corruption and the other(s): scope of superordinate identity matters for corruption permissibility."
PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144542. 
Hunger, J.M., Major, B., Blodorn, A. & Miller, C. (2015) 
"Weighed down by stigma: How weight-based social identity threat contributes to weight gain and health."
 Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 255-268. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12172
Research Themes:
Kelly Bedard (with Peter Kuhn). 2015. 
"Micro-Marketing Healthier Choices: Effects of Personalized Ordering Suggestions on Restaurant Purchases"
Journal of Health Economics, 39: 106-122.
Research Themes:
Hooper, P.L., Gerkey, D., Demps, K., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H.S. 2015. 
"Skills, division of labor and economies of scale among Amazonian hunters and South Indian honey collectors."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 370: 20150008. 
Cornick, J.E. & Blascovich, J. (in press).
"Consequences of Objective Self-Awareness During Exercise."
Health Psychology Open.
Research Themes:
Shelly Lundberg. 2015.
"Tiger Parenting and American Inequality: An Essay on Chua and Rubenfeld's The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America"
Journal of Economic Literature. December 2015: 53(4): 945-960  
Research Themes:
Hooper, P.L., Gurven, M., Winking, J., Kaplan, H.S. 2015.
"Intergenerational transfers explained by inclusive fitness in a traditional human society."
Proceedings Royal Society B 282, 20142808. 
Jaime Speed Rossiter, Giorgio Hadi Curti, Christopher M Moreno, David Lopéz-Carr. (2015) 
"Marine-space assemblages: Towards a different praxis of fisheries policy and management"
Applied Geography. Pergamon. 
Oliva, Paulina. 2015. 
"The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City, with Rema Hanna"
Journal of Public Economics, 122: 65-79.
Jenness SM, Biney AAE, Ampofo WK, Dodoo FN, Cassels S. 2015.
"Minimal Coital Dilution in Accra, Ghana."
JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 69(1): 85-91.  (PMCID: PMC4424052).
M. Benza, JR Weeks, DA Stow, KC Clarke, D, López-Carr (2015). 
"Fertility and Urban Context: A Case Study from West Africa Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS."
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Diego, CA 
Jaeggi, A.V., Trumble, B., Kaplan, H.S., Gurven, M. 2015. 
"Salivary oxytocin increases concurrently with testosterone and time away from home among returning Tsimane hunters."
Biology Letters20150058. 
Kelly Bedard (with Peter Kuhn). 2015.
"Making Nutritional Information Digestible: Effects of a Receipt-Based Intervention on Fast Food Purchases."
Journal of Health Economics, 2015 39: 106-122.
Research Themes:
Marcellus Caldus, Matthew Sanderson Jason Bergtold, David Haukos; Jessica Heier Stamm Martha Mather Melinda Daniels; Aleksey Sheshukov, David López-Carr (2015 - In Press). 
"Culture into Sustainability Science Research and Policy."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Trumble, B.C., Stieglitz, J., Emery Thompson, M., Fuerstenberg, E., Kaplan, H., Gurven, M. 2015.  
"Testosterone is associated with enhanced cognitive performance in a subsistence population with minimal schooling."
American Journal of Human Biology. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22665. 
Rios, V.M. 2015. 
"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. 
Research Themes:
Cieslak, M., Ryan, W., Macy, A., Kelsey, R.M., Cornick, J.E., Verket, M., Blascovich, J., & Grafton, S. (2014).
"Simultaneous acquisition of functional magnetic resonance images and impedance cardiography."
Psychophysiology.
Research Themes:
Cornick, J. E., & Blascovich, J. (2014).
"Are Virtual Environments the New Frontier in Obesity Management?"
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 650-658.
Research Themes:
Friedkin, N.E. and E.C. Johnsen. 2014. 
"Two Steps to Obfuscation"
Social Networks39: 12-13. 
Thébaud, Sarah. 2014. Review of
"Into the fire: Disaster and the Remaking of Gender"
American Journal of Sociology 119 (6). 
Research Themes:
Ervin, Daniel, 
"Complex Human 'Transitions' that Shape Our World."
Global-e, 8(10): 1. 2014
Grace, K., M. Brown and A. McNally. 2014. 
"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.
Weeks, John R. Demography is an Inherently Spatial Science, in Frank M. Howell, Jeremy R. Porter, and Stephen A. Matthews. 2014. 
"Recapturing Space: New Middle-Range Theory"
In Spatial Demography (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer).
Davis, J., Lopez-Carr D.
"Migration, remittances and smallholder decision-making: implications for land use and livelihood change in Central America."
Land Use Policy. 36: 319-329. 
Grace, Kathryn and Stuart Sweeney. 2014.
"Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America."
Demographic Research, 30: 6 (187-226). 
Kuhn, Peter. 2014.
"The Internet as a Labor Market Matchmaker: How Effective Are the New Electronic Methods of Worker Recruitment and Job Search?"
IZA World of Labor.
Weeks, John R. In press. 
"Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues"
Twelfth Edition (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning).
Hunger, J.M. & Major, B. 2014.
"Weight Stigma Mediates the Association between BMI and Psychological and Physical Health."
Health Psychology. 
Research Themes:
Hobden, Deborah.
"Your Mall With it All: Luxury Development in a Globalizing African City"
Perspectives in Global Development and Technology. 13: 129-147. 2014.
Chen, C., D. López-Carr, and B. Walker. 2014. 
"A framework to assess the vulnerability of California commercial sea urchin fishermen to the impact of MPAs under climate change."
GeoJournal. March, 1-19.
Winant, Howard. Forthcoming. 
"The Dark Matter: Race and Racism in the 21st-Century."
Critical Sociology.
Alagona, P., Esch, A., Paulson, T. and Marter-Kenyon, J.
"Population and Land Use"
In Erika Zavaleta and Harold Mooney, Eds. Ecosytems of California (Berkeley: University of California Press. [Population-Environment Interactions] 2014.
Bremer, L., K. A. Farley, D. López-Carr, and J. Romero. 2014. 
"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.