Below is a listing of Publications and News articles of the Center's faculty, affiliated researchers, fellows, and students.
Bow Street Bulletin newsletter:
Winter 2012
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Selected Publications by Center Members:
Bärnighausen, T., McWalter T., Rosner Z., Newell M., Welte A. “Use of the BED capture enzyme immunoassay to estimate HIV incidence: systematic review and sensitivity analysis.” Epidemiolgy. 2010 (in press).
Bärnighausen, T., Bloom, D. “Conditional scholarships for HIV/AIDS health workers: educating and retaining the workforce to provide antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa.” Social Science & Medicine. 2009. 68: 544-551.
Bärnighausen, T., Bloom, D. “Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review.” BMC Health Services Research. 2009. 29(9):86.
Clark, R., Beckfield, J. “A New Trichotomous Measure of World-System Position Using the International Trade Network.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 2009. 50:5-38 (lead article).
Beckfield, J. “The Social Structure of the World Polity.” American Journal of Sociology. Volume 115, Issue 4, Page 1018–1068, Jan 2010.
Betancourt, T.S., Agnew-Blais, J., Gilman, S., Ellis, B. “Past horrors, present struggles: The role of stigma in the association between war experiences and psychosocial adjustment among former child soldiers in Sierra Leone.” Social Science & Medicine. 2009;70(1):17-26.
Bloom, D., Canning, D., Fink, G., Finlay, J. “Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend.” Journal of Economic Growth. 2009. Vol. 14, No. 2, 79-101.
Clark, C., Bloom, D., Hill, A. “Prevalence estimate of intimate partner violence in Jordan.” East Mediterranean Health Journal. 2009. Jul-Aug;15(4):880-9.
Borjas, G., and Friedberg, R. "Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States." NBER Working Papers 15406, October 2009.
Fahrani, Mansoor, Subramanian S., and Canning, D. “The Effect of Changes in Health Sector Resources on Infant Mortality in the Short-Run and the Long-Run: a Longitudinal Econometric Analysis.” Social Science and Medicine. 2009, Vol. 68(11), 1918-1925.
Penrose, K, de Castro M., Werema, J, Ryan, E. “Informal urban settlements and cholera risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. March 2010.
Chernew, M., Sabik L., Chandra A., Gibson, T., Newhouse, J. "Geographic Correlation Between Large-Firm Commercial Spending and Medicare Spending." American Journal of Managed Care 16.2 (February 2010): 131-138.
Baicker, K., Chandra, A. "Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover." New England Journal of Medicine 362.2 (December 16, 2009): 95-97.
Chandra, A., Baicker, K. “A Trillion-Dollar Geography Lesson.” Health Affairs September/October 2009. 28(5), pp. 1448-1451.
Chandra, A., Gruber, J., McKnight, R. “Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly.” American Economic Review.
Mednick, S., Christakis, N., Fowler, J. "The Spread of Sleep Behavior Influences Drug Use in Adolescent Social Networks," PLoS One. March 2010 (3): e9775.
Fowler, J., Christakis, N. "Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks." PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. March 2010 107(9): 5334–5338.
Christakis, N., Fowler, J. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. New York: Little, Brown and Company. September, 2009.
Cutler, D., Chan, D. Shrank, W., Jan, S., Fischer, M., Liu, J., Aborn, J., Solomon, D., Brookhart, A., Choudhry, N. "Patient, Physician, and Payment Predictors of Statin Adherence." Medical Care. March 2010. 48(3), 196-202.
Cutler, D., Stewart, S., Rosen, A."Forecasting the Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy," New England Journal of Medicine. December 2, 2009. 361, 2252-2260.
Field, E., Robles, O., Torero, M. “Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania.” American Economic Journal – Applied Economics. October 2009, 1(4):140-169.
Wang, Y., Fong, V. “Little Emperors and the 4:2:1 Generation: China's Single Child Policy.” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2009. 48, no.12.
Nevarez, M., Rifas-Shiman, S., Kleinman, K., Gillman, M., Taveras, E. “Associations of Early Life Risk Factors With Infant Sleep Duration.” Academic Pediatrics. 2010 Mar 26.
Donahue, S., Kleinman, K., Gillman, M., Oken, E. “Trends in birth weight and gestational length among singleton term births in the United States: 1990-2005.” Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2010 Feb;115(2 Pt 1):357-64.
Glymour, M., Kosheleva, A., Boden-Albala, B. “Birth and adult residence in the Stroke Belt independently predict stroke mortality.” Neurology. 2009 Dec 1;73(22):1858-65.
Maselko, J., Bates, L., Avendaño, M., Glymour, M. “The intersection of sex, marital status, and cardiovascular risk factors in shaping stroke incidence: results from the health and retirement study.” Journal of American Geriatrics Society. 2009 Dec;57(12):2293-9.
Wang, Y., Gortmaker, S., Taveras, E. “Trends and racial/ethnic disparities in severe obesity among US children and adolescents, 1976-2006.” International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. 2010 Mar 17.
Van Cleave, J., Gortmaker, S., Perrin, J. “Dynamics of obesity and chronic health conditions among children and youth.” JAMA. 2010 Feb 17;303(7):623-30.
Gruskin, S., Ferguson, L., Peersman, G., Rugg, D.“Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV: Findings from the 2008 UNGASS Reports.” JAIDS. 2009. vol. 52, suppl. 2, S104-S110.
Halperin, D., Stover, J., Reynolds, H. “Benefits and costs of expanding access to family planning programs to women living with HIV.” AIDS. 2009. 23:S123-S130.
Halperin, D. “Combination HIV prevention must be based on evidence.” Lancet. 2009. 373:544-45.
Hernán, M., Cole, S. “Causal diagrams and measurement bias.” American Journal of Epidemiology. 2009. 170:959-962.
Wamala, S., Kawachi, I. “Globalisation and women's health in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Scand J Public Health. 2010 Mar;38 (4 Suppl):3-5.
Kawachi, I., Adler, N., Dow, W. Ann, N. “Money, schooling, and health: Mechanisms and causal evidence.” Acad Sci. 2010. Feb;1186:56-68.
Honaker, J., King, G. “What to do About Missing Values in Time Series Cross-Section Data,” American Journal of Political Science. 2010. Vol. 54, No. 2 (April): Pp. 561-581.
Krieger, N., Chen, J., Waterman, P. “Decline in US breast cancer rates after the women's health initiative: socioeconomic and racial/ethnic differentials.” Am J Public Health. 2010 Apr 1;100 Suppl 1:S132-9.
Sembajwe, G., Quinn, M., Kriebel, D., Stoddard, A., Krieger, N., Barbeau, E. “The influence of sociodemographic characteristics on agreement between self-reports and expert exposure assessments.” Am J Ind Med. 2010 Mar 19.
Rehkopf, D., Krieger, N., Coull, B., Berkman, L. “Biologic risk markers for coronary heart disease: nonlinear associations with income.” Epidemiology. 2010 Jan;21(1):38-46.
Hicks, L., O'Malley, A., Lieu, T., Keegan, T., McNeil, B., Guadagnoli, E., Landon, B. “Impact of health disparities collaboratives on racial/ethnic and insurance disparities in US community health centers.” Arch Intern Med. 2010 Feb 8;170(3):279-86.
Suzuki, E., Takao, S., Subramanian, S., Komatsu, H., Doi, H., Kawachi, I. “Does low workplace social capital have detrimental effect on workers' health?” Social Science Medicine. 2010 Feb 12.
Richmond, T., Subramanian, S. “School variation in asthma: compositional or contextual?” PLoS One. 2009 Dec 30;4(12):e8512.
Schuster, M., et al. “Perceived effects of leave from work and the role of paid leave among parents of children with special health care needs.” Am J Public Health. 2009;99:698-705.
Farahani, M., Subramanian, S., Canning, D. “Effects of state-level public spending on health on the mortality probability in India.” Health Economics. 2009 Nov 20.
Taveras, E., Mitchell, K., Gortmaker, S. “Parental confidence in making overweight-related behavior changes.” Pediatrics. 2009 Jul;124(1):151-8.
Toomey, S., Homer, C., Finkelstein, J. “Comparing medical homes for children with ADHD and asthma.” Acad Pediatr. 2010. Jan-Feb;10(1):56-63.
News Articles
Newsweek, February 23, 2009. "The Confidence Gap Why the Obama administration needs to restore public faith in the safety of childhood vaccines." Co-written by Heidi Larson, research associate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Full article - http://www.newsweek.com/id/185986/page/2
Science, January 23, 2009. "Social science: With isolation comes ill health" Featuring the research on social isolation conducted by Lisa Berkman, Director of the HCPDS.
New York Magazine, November 23, 2008. "Alone Together." Featuring the research on social isolation conducted by Lisa Berkman, Director of the HCPDS. - http://nymag.com/news/features/52450/
