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Urbanization and Daughter-Biased Parental Investment in Fiji, Human Nature (2011)

Parental investment decisions guide parental actions regarding children’s productive work and are shaped by ecological...

 

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Expanding Opportunity Structures: Parental Investments in Education, Migration, and Extrinsic Risk Reduction among Indo-Fijians, Human Nature (2010)

Parental investment strategies are contingent on parental capacities and ecology. Parental embodied capital may be...

 

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Extrinsic Risk: Introduction to the Special Issue, Human Nature (2010)
 

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Indo-Fijian Children’s BMI in the Context of Urbanization, Embodied Capital, and Food Choice Trade-offs, Human Nature (2007)

Health research has shown that overweight and obesity in children and adults are becoming significant...

 

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Do Women Really Need Marital Partners for Support of Their Reproductive Success? The Case of the Matrilineal Khasi of N.E. India (with Donna L. Leonetti, Dilip C. Nath, and Natabar S. Hemam), Research in Economic Anthropology (2004)

Among the Khasi, a matrilineal society in N. E. India, women have direct control over...

 

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Fast Food Foraging: The Impact of Neighborhood, Household and Cultural Factors on Dietary Decision-Making and BMI in South Los Angeles (with Deborah E. Schechter), 21st Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (2009)

Previous research has linked neighborhood characteristics and obesity trends. In particular, lack of access to...

 

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Urbanization, Kin Dispersion, and Daughter-Biased Parental Investment in Fiji, 108th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anthropology (2009)

Parental investment decisions guide the actions parents take regarding child productive work and are shaped...

 

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Effects of Grandmother's Presence and Work Effort on Fertility, Survivorship, and Weight in Two Ethnic Groups in N.E. India (with D. L. Leonetti, D. C. Nath, and N. S. Hemam), Abstracts of the 28th annual meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tempe, Arizona, April 25–27, 2003 Published in American Journal of Human Biology (2005)

Hypotheses regarding the selection for extension of post-menopausal life in humans depend on showing that...

 

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Maternal Age, Paternal Age and Effective Fecundability in Rural Bangladesh (with EK Brunson and DJ Holman), Abstracts of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association Milwaukee, Wisconsin April 6-7, 2005. American Journal of Human Biology (2005)

Effective fecundability is defined as the monthly probability for a conception that leads to a...

 

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Student Perceptions of the School Environment and Its Influence on Nutrition and Physical Activity (with Erica V. Lamson and Donna B. Johnson), 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (2004)

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how the school environment impacts students’...

 

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Offspring Contributions to Household Economy by Age and Sex Among the Khasi of N.E. India (with D. L. Leonetti, D. C. Nath, and N. S. Hemam), Abstracts of the 28th annual meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tempe, Arizona, April 25–27, 2003. American Journal of Human Biology (2003)

Productive work or alloparenting by offspring appears to be dependent on the environmental context and...

 

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Cooperative Breeding Effects Among the Matrilineal Khasi of N. E. India (with Donna L. Leonetti, Dilip C. Nath, and Natabar S. Hemam), 14th Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (2002)

As a hallmark of our species, mothers of small children generally require and receive help...

 

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The Effects of Famine, Maternal Age, and Paternal Age on Fetal Loss in Rural Bangladesh (with D. J. Holman), Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Buffalo, New York April 12–14 2001. American Journal of Human Biology (2001)

The effect of famine on fetal loss has been well documented for a number of...