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O'Connell, James F. | A Different Paradigm for the Initial Colonisation of Sahul: Archaeological, genetic, demographic and geographic perspectives | The questions of when and how humans reached Sahul, the Pleistocene continent of Australia and New Guinea, has remained a central issue of Australian archaeology since its development as an academic discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Additionally, this has been a dominant theme linking Austral... | Sahul; Wallacea; colonisation; isolation; genomics; mitochondrial DNA | 2019-08-20 |
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Yaworsky, Peter M. | Archaeological Potential of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument | Executive proclamation 9682 reduces the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), removing protections for at least 2,000 known archaeological sites and an unknown number of undiscovered cultural properties. Because only 10% of the GSENM's 1.9 million acres has been inventorie... | Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Anthropology-Research | 2018 |
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Yu, Zhou | Changing distribution of migrant population and influencing factors in urban China: economic transition, public policy, and amenities | | Migrant redistribution; rural-urban and interregional migration; urban transformation; economic transition; floating population | 2019 |
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Wang, Yu; Sun, Bindong; Yu, Zhou | Equalization or polarization? The effect of the Internet on National Urban Hierarchies across the World, 2000-2018 | As Internet adoption and diffusion continues worldwide, little is known about its effects on the restructuring of national urban hierarchies across the world. We create a panel data of city population with uniform definitions within each of the 133 countries from 2000 to 2018, using the Pareto index... | Internet; urban hierarchy; nonlinear link; channel; transnational; urban growth | 2018 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support | Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes and financial support on adult children's homeowne... | Demographics; Intergenerational mobility; Parental income transfers; Parental attributes | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou, Haan, Michael, Yi, Chengdong | The Inception of Housing Pathways in Urban China: The Declining Household Formation of Young Adults from 2011 to 2017 | The homeownership rate of young adults has surged to an unprecedented level in urban China, despite rising housing prices and significant rural-urban migration. A trend analysis of nationally representative microdata shows that household formation is the missing link in the paradox and that many you... | Household formation; headship rates; young adults; migration; institutional barriers; housing pathways | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou | Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China | As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in Internet access, its spatial effect on regional econ... | Digital divide; Internet access; spillover effect; regional economic development; China | 2017-06-03 |
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Yu, Zhou | Macro effects on the household formation of China s young adults demographics institutional factors and regional differences | Household formation, or the extent to which population is transferred into households, determines housing demand and reflects housing wellbeing. Young adults, who are new entrants to the housing market and sensitive to changing market conditions, have faced many challenges in China's fledging housin... | Household formation; headship rates; housing demand; the post 1970 generation; demographics; regional differences; non-family households | 2017-01-24 |
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Macfarlan, Shane | Male Survival Advantage on the Baja California Peninsula | A consistent finding from contemporary Western societies is that women outlive men. However, what is unclear is whether sex differences in survival are constant across varying socio-ecological conditions. We test the universality of the female survival advantage with mortality data from a nineteenth... | ecology; health and disease and epidemiology; behaviour | 2020 |
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Vernon, Kenneth B. | Prearchaic land use in Grass Valley, Nevada: A novel statistical implementation of optimal distribution modeling | Using Prearchaic (PA) sites in Grass Valley, NV (Fig. 1), this project investigates (i) environmental factors driving variation in PA settlement and (ii) geomorphological factors driving variation in PA surface visibility. Building on previous research [1,2], we evaluate variables using Ideal Free D... | Prearchaic - Great Basin; Ideal Free Distribution; Maximum Entropy | 2018 |
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Codding, Brian F. | Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region | The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout 25 the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution ... | Ideal free distribution model; population ecology; behavioral ecology; maize agriculture; Ancestral Puebloan; Fremont Complex | 2021 |