Publications
Published
Sheppard, P. and D. Coall (2020) The role of ontogeny in understanding human demographic behavior. Book chapter in Human Evolutionary Demography Sear, R., O. Burger, and R. Lee (eds.) here
Cavallaro, F., L. Benova, K. Wong, P. Sheppard, A, Faye, E. Radvich, A. Dumont, A. Salam-Mbengue, C. Ronsmans, M. Martinez-Alvarez (2020) What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure: readiness for emergency obstetric care and referral in Senegal. BMJ Global Health 5(3): e001915 here
Sheppard, P. and C. Monden (2019) Becoming a first-time grandparent and subjective well-being: a fixed effects approach. Journal of Marriage and Family 81(4): 1016-26 here
Sear, R., P. Sheppard, and D. Coall (2019) Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 374(1770) here
Sheppard, P. (2018) Fatherhood: Biosocial perspectives on. International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell: New Jersey here
Sheppard, P. and C. Monden (2018) The additive advantage of having educated grandfathers for children's education: evidence from a cross-national sample in Europe. European Sociological Review here
Anderson, L., P. Sheppard and C. W. S. Monden (2018) Grandparent effects on educational outcomes: a systematic review. Sociological Science 5:114-142 here
Freeman, M., P. Sheppard and M. Brady (2017) Does community-based point-of-care HIV testing reduce late HIV diagnosis? A retrospective study in England and Wales. International Journal of STD & AIDS 28(11) 1098-1105 here
Sheppard, P. and R. Sear (2016) Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate. Royal Society Open Science 3:160069 here
Coall, D., M. Tickner, L. McAllister and P. Sheppard (2016) Developmental influences on human fertility decisions: an evolutionary perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 371(1692) 20150146 here
Sheppard, P. and R. Smith (2016) What students want: using a choice modelling approach to estimate student demand. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 38(2) 140-149 here
Sheppard, P., J. R. Garcia and R. Sear (2015) Childhood family disruption adult height: Is there a mediating role of puberty? Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health here
Sheppard, P., M. Pearce, and R. Sear (2015) How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development. American Journal of Human Biology. 28(3): 356-363 here
Sheppard, P., J. R. Garcia, and R. Sear (2014) A not-so-grim tale: How childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical US population. PLoS ONE 9(3): e89539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089539 here
Sheppard, P., S. Schaffnit, J. R. Garcia and R. Sear (2014) Fostering relations: first sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers. Evolution and Human Behavior 35(3) 161-168 here
Sheppard, P, K. Snopkowski and R. Sear (2014) Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in a transitional fertility population. Human Nature 25(2) 213-234 here
Sheppard, P and R. Sear (2012) Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men. Biology Letters 8(2) 237-240 here
Forthcoming
Sheppard, P. and Z. Van Winkle (in press) Are human life histories really coherent strategies? Using sequence analysis to empirically test a widespread theoretical assumption. Evolutionary Human Sciences
Sheppard, P. and C. Monden (Registered Report, conditional acceptance) When does family size matter? Sibship size, socioeconomic status, and education in England. Evolutionary Human Sciences
Sheppard, P. and C. Monden (in prep) No evidence that becoming a grandparent benefits well-being: What does this mean for theories of grandparenting? Demographic Research
Schaffnit, S., P. Sheppard, J.R. Garcia, and R. Sear (in prep) How fertility intentions inform mate choice: data from a nationally representative US sample. Evolutionary Psychology
Garcia, J., A. Gesselman, P. Sheppard, R. Sear, and P. Gray (in prep) Childhood Family Structure And Sexual Orientation: Father Absence Predicts Bisexuality In Two Independent National U.S. Samples. Nature Human Behavior