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Density, crowding, and satisfaction with the residential environment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1982-01)
The relationships between a set of measures of various components of environmental density and perceived crowding are examined in a data set from a sample of residents of a large metropolitan area. While there are meaningful ...
The worldwide change in the behavior of interest rates and prices in 1914
(Elsevier, 1988-06)
This paper evaluates the role of the destruction of the gold standard and the founding of the Federal Reserve, both of which occured in 1914, in contributing to observed changes in the behavior of interest rates and prices ...
Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity as Risk or Protective Factors for Violent Behaviors in African American Young Adults
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This study examined the influences of racial discrimination and different racial identity attitudes on engaging in violent behavior among 325 African American young adults. The contributions of racial discrimination and ...
The Urban Environment and Sexual Risk Behavior among Men who have Sex with Men
(2006)
Increasingly, studies show that characteristics of the urban environment
influence a wide variety of health behaviors and disease outcomes, yet few studies have
focused on the sexual risk behaviors of men who have sex ...
From the guest editor
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
Ecological demography: A synthetic focus in evolutionary anthropology
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993)
The interests of evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral ecologists, and demographers converge on the ecology of human fertility. Ecological conditions influence the optimum pattern of maternal effort. Patterns of abortion, ...
The Impact of Community Context on Land Use in an Agricultural Society
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-01)
As an initial step toward new models of the population-environment relationship, this paper explores the relationship between community context and local land use in an agricultural setting. In this type of setting, we ...
How did it work? An examination of the mechanisms through which an intervention for the unemployed promoted job-search behavior
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-10)