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Health lifestyle behaviors among U.S. adults
(Elsevier, 2017-12)Existing research that studies individual health behaviors and conceive of behaviors as simplistically reflecting narrow intentions toward health may obscure the social organization of health behaviors. Instead, we examine ... -
Reducing Low Birth Weight among African Americans in the Midwest: A Look at How Faith-Based Organizations Are Poised to Inform and Influence Health Communication on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
(MDPI, 2017-02-04)Low birth weight (LBW) rates remain the highest among African Americans despite public health efforts to address these disparities; with some of the highest racial disparities in the Midwest (Kansas). The Developmental ... -
The Architecture of Feminicide: The State, Inequalities, and Everyday Gender Violence in Honduras
(Latin American Studies Association, 2017-08)Increasing exclusion and inequality in Honduras have posed escalating security risks for women in their homes and on the streets. In this article, we examine gender-based violence against women, including gender-motivated ... -
Depression, Executive Dysfunction, and Prior Economic and Social Vulnerability Associations in Incarcerated African American Men
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-01)Low executive function (EF) and depression are each determinants of health. We examined the synergy between deficits in EF (impaired cognitive flexibility; >75th percentile on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test perseverative ... -
HIV status, fertility intentions, and contraception in the era of expanded access to antiretroviral therapy: A case study of rural Mozambique
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-12-29)Provision of effective contraception to HIV positive women of reproductive age is critical to effective management of HIV infection and prevention of both vertical and horizontal HIV transmission in developing countries. ... -
The Sources of Life Chances: Does Education, Class Category, Occupation, or Short-Term Earnings Predict 20-Year Long-Term Earnings?
(Society for Sociological Science, 2018-03-21)In sociological studies of economic stratification and intergenerational mobility, occupation has long been presumed to reflect lifetime earnings better than do short-term earnings. However, few studies have actually ... -
"'Asianness Under Construction:' The Contours and Negotiation of Panethnic Identity/Culture among Interethnically Married Asian Americans."
(SAGE, 2017)Based on life-history interviews of interethnically married U.S.-raised Asians, this article examines the meaning and dynamics of Asian American interethnic marriages, and what they reveal about the complex incorporative ... -
Subverting Justice: Socio-Legal Determinants of Impunity for Violence against Women in Guatemala
(MDPI, 2016-07-11)High levels of violence against women and impunity in Guatemala have reached crisis proportions and have received increased international attention in recent years. The phenomenon of feminicide (e.g., killings of women in ... -
Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05)This article examines the enduring alterations in behaviors, practices, and self-image that immigrants’ evolving knowledge of and participation in the legalization process facilitate. Relying on close to 200 interviews ... -
Place, Time and Experience: Barriers to Universalization Of Institutional Child Delivery in Rural Mozambique
(Guttmacher Institute, 2016-03)CONTEXT Although institutional coverage of childbirth is increasing in the developing world, a substantial minority of births in rural Mozambique still occur outside of health facilities. Identifying the remaining ... -
Beyond Orchids and Dandelions: Testing the 5HTT ‘Risky’ Allele for Evidence of Phenotypic Capacitance and Frequency Dependent Selection
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The persistence of behaviorally deleterious genes in the human population poses an interesting question for population genetics: If certain alleles at these loci are deleterious, why have they survived in the population? ... -
Youth Early Employment and Behavior Problems: Human Capital and Social Network Pathways to Adulthood
(SAGE Publications, 2014-04-28)We examine the relationship between early youth employment and behavior problems and ask whether this relationship differs by race, job quality, or work intensity. Drawing on Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we depict ... -
Wealth as Security: Growth Curve Analyses of Household Income and Net Worth During a Recession
(Springer Verlag, 2016-03)Building on evidence of increasing inequality with the 2008-9 recession, we ask whether households experienced different financial trajectories through the recession depending on initial income and net worth. Using growth ... -
Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins
(Springer Verlag, 2013-08-01)Classically derived estimates of heritability from twin models have been plagued by the possibility of genetic-environmental covariance. Survey questions that attempt to measure directly the extent to which more genetically ... -
The Relationship between Income and Net Worth in the U.S.: A Virtuous Cycle for High but Not Low Income Households
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-22)Is there a reciprocal relationship between household income and net worth and does that relationship depend on initial income? Using cross-lagged panel models of household income and net worth data from the Panel Study of ... -
Sibling Genes as Environment: Sibling Dopamine Genotypes and Adolescent Health Support Frequency Dependent Selection
(Elsevier, 2015-11)While research consistently suggests siblings matter for individual outcomes, it remains unclear why. At the same time, studies of genetic effects on health typically correlate variants of a gene with the average level of ... -
Plastic and Immobile: Unequal Intergenerational Mobility by Genetic Sensitivity Score within Sibling Pairs
(Elsevier, 2017-07)Contrary to traditional biological arguments, the differential susceptibility model suggests genotype may moderate rather than mediate parent-child economic similarity. Using family fixed effects models of Add Health sibling ... -
Producing Adulthood: Adolescent Employment, Fertility, and the Life Course
(Elsevier, 2011-03)Adolescent employment is typically framed as having either positive or negative effects. Yet cutting edge research yields apparently contradictory results; work lowers delinquency but also increases school dropout. Both ... -
Examining the Relationship between Parental Educational Expectations and a Community-Based Children’s Savings Account Program
(Elsevier, 2017)Children’s Savings Account (CSA) program and parents’ educational expectations for their children. We examine survey data collected as part of the rollout and implementation of The Promise Indiana CSA program. Although ... -
Marriage Delayed and Equalized: Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Marital Patterns by Race
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-22)Identifying a causal relationship between education and marital status poses methodological challenges. Using regression discontinuity analyses of U.S. Census data from 1910 and 1930, I estimate effects of early U.S. ...
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