Population Studies and Training Center

Selected Faculty Publications

McConnell, Kathryn, Elizabeth Fussell, Jack DeWaard, et al. 2024. Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S. Nature Communications 15:6631. 

Kraft, Matthew. and Sarah Novicoff. 2024. Time in School: A Conceptual Framework, Synthesis of the Causal Research, and Empirical ExplorationAmerican Educational Research Journal 61(4):724-766. 

Alsan, Marcella, Arkey Barnett, Peter Hull, and Crystal Yang. 2024. “Something Works" in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the Ignite ProgramNational Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. w32282.

DeWaard, J., Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J. Curtis, Stephan D. Whitaker, Kathryn McConnell, Kobie Price, Michael Soto, and Catalina Anampa Castro. 2023. Migration as a vector of economic losses from disaster-affected areas in the United States. Demography 60(1):173–199.

Jack, Rebecca, Clare Halloran, James Okun, and Emily Oster. Forthcoming. Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. School Districts. American Economic Review: Insights.

Jackson, Margot and Ester Fanelli. Forthcoming. “Who Uses the Social Safety Net? Trends in Public Benefit Use among American Households with Children, 1980-2020.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Logan, John R., Samuel Kye, H. Jacob Carlson, Elisabeta Minca, and Daniel Schleith. 2023. The Role of Suburbanization in Metropolitan Segregation after 1940. Demography 60(1):281–301.

Bahar, Dany, Andreas Hauptmann, Cem Özgüzel, and Hillel Rapoport. 2022. Migration and knowledge diffusion: The effect of Yugoslavian returning refugees on export productivity. Review of Economics and Statistics 1-50.

Bahar, Dany, Hillel Rapoport, and Ricardo Turati. 2022. Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence. Research Policy 51(8).

Beccia, Aria L.*, S. Bryn Austin, Jonggyu Baek, Madina Agénor, Sarah Forrester, Eric Y. Ding, William M. Jesdale, Kate L. Lapane. 2022. Cumulative exposure to state-level structural sexism and risk of disordered eating: Results from a 20-year prospective cohort study. Social Science & Medicine.

Björkegren, DanielCompetition in Network Industries: Evidence from the Rwandan Mobile Phone Network. 2022. Journal of Development Economics 154:102762.

Brazil, Noli and Jennifer Candipan. 2022. The Neighborhood Ethnoracial and Socioeconomic Context of Public Elementary School Closures in U.S. Metropolitan AreasSocial Science Research 103:102655.

Burrows, Kate and Elizabeth Fussell. 2022. A Life Course Epidemiology Approach to Climate Extremes and Human Health. Comment. The Lancet Planetary Health 6(7):e549-550.

Candipan, Jennifer, Alicia Riley, and Janeria Easley. 2022. While Some Things Change, Do Others Stay the Same? The Heterogeneity of Neighborhood Health Returns to GentrificationHousing Policy Debate. 

Candipan, Jennifer and Michael M. Bader. 2022. The Dual Role of Race and Immigration Among Ascending Neighborhoods in U.S. Metropolitan AreasPopulation Research and Policy Review 41:1725–1756.

DeAtley, Teresa, Abigail Harrison, Bulelwa Mtukushe, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Rudzani Muloiwa, Jackie Hoare, Omar Galárraga, and Caroline Kuo. 2022. Conditional Economic Incentives for HIV Treatment Adherence: Aligning Adolescent Developmental Hallmarks with Behavioral Economic Theory to Improve HIV Treatment AdherenceAIDS Patient Care STDS 36(7):272-277.

Esseau-Thomas, Chrys, Omar Galárraga, and Sherif Khalifa. 2022. Epidemics, Pandemics and Income InequalityHealth Economics Review 12(1):7.

Fussell, Elizabeth and Briana Castro*. 2022. Environmentally Informed Migration in North AmericaInternational Handbook of Population and Environment. Edited by Clark Gray, Lori Hunter, and Jaques Veron. Springer.

Fussell, Elizabeth, Jack DeWaard, Katherine J. Curtis. 2022. Environmental Migration as Short- or Long-term Differences from a Trend: A Case Study of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Effects on Out-migration in the Gulf of MexicoInternational Migration.

Leinaweaver, Jessaca and Milagros Caroline Forrester. 2022. Adoption Knowledge: A Citizen-Scientific Use of FamilySearch to Understand Peruvian AdoptionTapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. Article 2123635.

Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Haoming Song*. 2022. Union Formation, and Assortative Mating Among Older WomenSocial Science Research. 

Lindstrom, David P., Heather F. Randell and Tefera Belachew, T. (2022). The Migration Response to Food Insecurity and Household Shocks in Southwestern Ethiopia, 2005–2008International Migration Review.

Markussen, Thomas, Louis Putterman, and Liangjun Wang. 2022. Algorithmic Leviathan or Individual Choice: Choosing Sanction Regimes in the Face of Observational ErrorEconomica 90:315-338.

Pérez Ashley E.*Madina Agénor. 2022. Racial/ethnic and sexual orientation identity differences in the receipt of a sexual history assessment from a health care provider among women in the United StatesWomen’s Health Issues 32:156-164.

Qian, Zhenchao and Ming-Chang Tsai. 2022. Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration: Marrying Men in Taiwan across Borders and BoundariesPopulation Research and Policy Review 41:1451–1470.

Short, Susan E., and Meghan Zacher. 2022. Women’s Health: Population Patterns and Social DeterminantsAnnual Review of Sociology 48:277–298.

Yorlets, Rachel R., Mark N. Lurie, Carren Ginsburg, Joseph W. HoganNina R. Joyce, Sadson Harawa, Mark A. Collinson, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, and Michael J. White. 2022. Validity of Self-Report for Ascertaining HIV Status Among Circular Migrants and Permanent Residents in South Africa: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based AnalysisAIDS and Behavior 27:919–927.

Xu, Zengwang and John R. Logan. 2022. Vulnerability to COVID-19 Infection in MilwaukeeInternational Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 13(1):1-18.

Zacher, Meghan, Jiwen Wang, and Susan E. Short. 2022. The contributions of hypertension diagnosis and blood pressure control to subjective life expectancy in a representative sample of older U.S. adultsJournals of Gerontology Series B 77(2):378-388.

Aroke, Hilary A. MD, PhD, MS; Ashley L. Buchanan, Ashley, DrPH, MS; Jeffrey Bratberg, PharmD; Joseph W. Hogan, ScD; Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH; Xuerong Wen, PhD, MS; Stephen J. Kogut, PhD, MBA. 2021. Initial patterns of initial prescription opioid use and risk of mortality among insured adults in the United StatesJournal of Addiction Medicine 15:99-108. 

Bell, Andrew R., David J. Wrathall, Valerie Mueller, Joyce Chen, Michael Oppenheimer, Mathew Hauer, Helen Adams, Scott Kulp, Peter U. Clark, Elizabeth Fussell, Nicholas Magliocca, Tingling Xiao*, Elisabeth A. Gilmore, Kali Abel*, Maia Call, Amee B.A. Slangen. 2021. Migration towards Bangladesh Coastlines Projected to Increase with Sea-level Rise through 2100Environmental Research Letters 16(2):024045.

Björkegren, Daniel and Burak Ceyhun Karaca. 2021. Network Adoption Subsidies: A Digital Evaluation of a Rural Mobile Phone Program in RwandaThe RAND Journal of Economics 53(1):200-225.

Braitstein, Paula, Allison DeLong, David Ayuku, Mary Ott, Lukoye Atwoli, Omar Galárraga, Edwin Sang, and Joseph Hogan. 2021. Association of Care Environment With HIV Incidence and Death Among Orphaned, Separated, and Street-Connected Children and Adolescents in Western Kenya. JAMA Network Open. 4(9):e2125365.

Candipan, Jennifer, Nolan E. Phillips, Robert J. Sampson, and Mario Small. 2021. From Residence to Movement: The Nature of Racial Segregation in Everyday Urban MobilityUrban Studies 58(15):3095–3117.

Chan, Philip A., MD; Ewa King, PhD; Yizhen Xu, PhD; William Goedel, PhD; Leanne Lasher, MPH; Matt Vargas, MBA; Ken Brindamour, MS; Richard Huard, PhD, D(ABBM), FCCM; Ailis Clyne, MD; James McDonald, MD; Utpala Bandy, MD; David Yokum, PhD; Michelle L. Rogers, PhD; Laura Chambers, PhD; Siena C. Napoleon, MPH; Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH; and Joseph W. Hogan, ScD. 2021. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Rhode Island from a statewide random sampleAmerican Journal of Public Health 111:700- 703.

Dal Bó, Pedro, Guillaume R. Fréchette, and Jeongbin Kim. 2021. The Determinants of Efficient Behavior in Coordination GamesGames and Economic Behavior 130:352-368.

DeWaard, Jack, Mathew Hauer, Elizabeth Fussell, Katherine J. Curtis, Stephan D. Whitaker, Kathryn McConnell,* Kobie Price,* David Egan-Robertson, Michael Soto*, Catalina Anampa Castro*. 2021. User Beware: Concerning Findings from the Post 2011-2012 U.S. Internal Revenue Service Migration DataPopulation Research and Policy Review 41(2):437-448.

Escudero, Kevin and Amalia Pallares. 2021. Civil disobedience as strategic resistance in the US immigrant rights movementAntipode 53(2):422-444.

Flores, Andrea. 2021. The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America. University of California Press.

Fell, Deshayne B., Michelle C. Dimitris, Jennifer A. Hutcheon, Justin R. Ortiz, Robert W. Platt, Annette K. Regan, and David A. Savitz. 2021. Guidance for Design and Analysis of Observational Studies of Fetal and Newborn Outcomes Following COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy. Vaccine. 39(14):1882-1886.

Friedman, Samantha, Elizabeth Fussell, Mayuko Nakatsuka*, Recai Yucel. 2021. Hispanic Disaster Preparedness in the U.S. 2017: Examining the Association of Residential CharacteristicsCityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 23(3):205-240.

Ginsburg, Carren, Mark A. Collinson, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mark Gross, Sadson Harawa, Mark N. Lurie, Keith Mukondwa, Chantel F. Pheiffer, Stephen Tollman, Rebecca Wang, and Michael J. White. 2021. Internal Migration and Health in South Africa: Determinants of Healthcare Utilisation in a Young Adult CohortBMC Public Health. 21:554.

Hayer, Sarena, Kira DiClemente, Alison Swartz, Zipho Falakhec, Christopher Colvin, Susan E. Short, and Abigail Harrison. 2021. Embodiment, agency, unmet need: Young women’s experiences in the use and non-use of contraception in Khayelitsha, South AfricaGlobal Public Health Feb 10:1-14.

Hogan Joseph W., Noya Galai, and Wendy W. Davis. 2021. Modeling the impact of social determinants of health on HIVAIDS and Behavior 25:215-224. 

Hunter, Lori M., Stephanie Konig, Elizabeth Fussell, Brian King, Andrea Rishworth, Alexis Merdjanoff, Raya Muttarak, Fernando Riosmena, Daniel H. Simon*, Emily Skop & Jamon Van Den Hoek. 2021. Scales and Sensitivities in Climate Vulnerability, Displacement, and HealthPopulation and Environment 43:61-81.

Kimani-Murage, Elizabeth W., Judith Kimiywe, Antonina N. Mutoro, Calistus Wilunda, Frederick Murunga Wekesah, Peter Muriuki, Bonaventure M. Mwangi, Betty Mogesi Samburu, Nyovani Janet Madise, Stephen T. McGarvey, and Paula L. Griffiths. 2021. Effectiveness of the Baby Friendly Community Initiative on Exclusive Breastfeeding in KenyaMaternal & Child Nutrition 17:e13142.

Mollan Katie R., Brian W. Pence, Steven Xu, Jessie K. Edwards, W. Christopher Mathews, Conall O'Cleirigh, Heidi M. Crane, Ellen F. Eaton, Ann C. Collier, Ann Marie K. Weideman, Daniel Westreich, Stephen R. Cole, Camlin Tierney, Angela M. Bengtson, CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. 2021. Transportability from Randomized Trials to Clinical Care: On Initial HIV Treatment with Efavirenz and Suicidal Thoughts or BehaviorsAmerican Journal of Epidemiology 190(10):2075-2084.

Qian, Zhenchao and Daniel T. Lichter. 2021. Racial Pairings and Fertility: Do Interracial Couples Have Fewer Children? Journal of Marriage and Family 83(4):919-924.

Restar, Arjee Javellana, Jennifer Sherwood, Alberto Edeza, Candice Collins, and Don Operario. 2021. Expanding Gender-Based Health Equity Framework for Transgender PopulationsTransgender Health 15;6(1):1-4.

Rich, Peter, Jennifer Candipan, and Ann Owens. 2021. Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link? Demography 58(2):471–498.

Steenland, Maria W., Lydia E. Pace, Anna D. Sinaiko, and Jessica L. Cohen. 2021. Medicaid Payments for Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Evidence from South CarolinaHealth Affairs 40(2):334-342.

Steenland, MariaSusan E. Short, and Omar Galárraga. 2021. Association between Rhode Island’s Paid Family Leave Policy on Postpartum Care UseObstetrics and Gynecology 137(4):728-730.

Wise, Lauren A., Tanran R. Wang, Amerlia K. Wesselink, Sydney K. Willis, Alina Chaiyasarikul, Jessica S. Levinson, Kenneth J. Rothman, Elizabeth E. Hatch, and David A. Savitz. 2021. Accuracy of Self-Reported Birth Outcomes Relative to Birth Certificate Data in an Internet-Based Prospective Cohort StudyPaediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 35(5):590-595.

Xu, Hongwei, Nancy Luke, and Susan E. Short. 2021. Women’s Political Leadership and Adult Health: Evidence from Rural and Urban ChinaJournal of Health and Social Behavior 62(1):100-118.

Logan, John R.Andrew Foster, Hongwei Xu, and Wenquan Zhang. Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom? 2020. Demography 57:1951-1974.

Lurie, Mark N.*, Joe Silva*, Rachel R. Yorlets, Jun Tao, Philip A. Chan. 2020. COVID-19 Epidemic Doubling Time in the United States Before and During Stay-at-Home RestrictionsJournal of Infectious Diseases 222(10):1601-1606. *Joint first author.

Mason, Katherine A., Sarah S. Willen, Seth M. Holmes, Denise Herd, Mark Nichter, Heide Castañeda, and Helena Hansen. 2020. How Do You Build a ‘Culture of Health’? A Critical Appraisal of Challenges and Opportunities from Medical AnthropologyPopulation Health Management 23(6): 476-81.

Rauscher, Emily and David Enrique Rangel. 2020. Rising Inequality of Infant Health in the U.S. Social Science and Medicine - Population Health 12:100698.