Publications

Lu, Y. T., & Colleran, H. (in press). Fertility Transitions. In J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. [pdf] [manuscript]

Lee, C. S., Wang, M., Nanjappa, D., Lu, Y. T., Meliker, J., Clouston, S., Gobler, C. J., & Venkatesan, A. K. (2023). Monitoring of Over the Counter (OTC) and COVID-19 Treatment Drugs Complement Wastewater Surveillance of Sars-Cov-2. Journal Of Exposure Science And Environmental Epidemiology, 1-9.

Lu, Y. T., Hwang, W. H., Hsieh, Y. T., Ho, T. Y., Zhu, J. D., Yeh, C. I., & Huang, C. Y. (2022). Choices Behind the Veil of Ignorance in Formosan Macaques. PNAS Nexus, 1(4), pgac188.

Shin, I., Wang, L., & Lu, Y. T. (2022). Twitter and Endorsed (Fake) News: The Influence of Endorsement by Strong Ties, Celebrities, and a User Majority on Credibility of Fake News During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Communication, 16, 23.

Chung, H. K., Sjöström, T., Lee, H. J., Lu, Y. T., Tsuo, F. Y., Chen, T. S., … & Huang, C. Y. (2017). Why Do Irrelevant Alternatives Matter? an FMRI-TMS Study of Context-Dependent Preferences. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(48), 11647-11661.

Deng, D. M., Lu, Y. T., & Chang, C. H. (2017). Fluctuation Relations Between Hierarchical Kinetically Equivalent Networks With Arrhenius-Type Transitions and Their Roles in Systems and Structural Biology. Physical Review E, 95(6), 062401.

Work in Progress

“Cultural Inheritance Determines the Emergence and Diffusion of Low Fertility in Wealth-Inheriting Populations” with Heidi Colleran.

“Does Inter-Generational Social Mobility Explain Human Fertility Decline? A Classic Model Fails to Replicate” with Heidi Colleran.

“Congress’s Role in Concentrating Wealth in the United States” with Matthew Lebo and Gregory Koger.

“An Agent-Based Model of Elections with Endogenous Candidates, Voters, and Media” with Oleg Smirnov and John Barry Ryan.

“Policy Cooperation Under Threats: Effects of Competition Between Interest Groups” (single author).

“Does Media Bias Cause Political Polarization? an Agent-Based Model of Biased Media, Motivated Reasoners, and Political Polarization” (single author).

“Trust, Inequality and Redistributive Demands in Latin America” with Robert Vidigal.