List of Publications
Nancy Luke and Gayatri Singh. "Remittances across Migrant Generations: New Theory and Evidence from Urban Kenya." (In review.)
Nancy Luke, Hongwei Xu, Blessing Mberu, and Rachel Goldberg. "Migration Experience and Sexual Debut in Urban Kenya: An Event History Analysis." (In review.)
Nancy Luke, Rachel Goldberg, Blessing Mberu, and Eliya Zulu. Forthcoming. "Social Exchange and Sexual Behavior in Young Women's Premarital Relationships in Kenya." Journal of Marriage and Family.
Nancy Luke, Shelley Clark, and Eliya Zulu. 2011 forthcoming. "The Relationship History Calendar: Improving the Scope and Quality of Data on Youth Sexual Behavior." Demography 48(3).
Nancy Luke and Hongwei Xu. 2011. "Exploring the Meaning of Context for Health: Community Influences on Child Health in South India." Demographic Research. 25(article 15):345-374.
Alena Davidoff-Gore, Nancy Luke, and Salome Wawire. "Dimensions of Poverty and Inconsistent Condom Use among Youth in Urban Kenya." AIDS Care. First published 11 May 2011 (iFirst).
Libby Abbott and Nancy Luke. 2011. "Local Hierarchies and Distributor (non)compliance: A Case Study of community-based Distribution in Rural North India." Health Care for Women International 32(3):225-242.
Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi. 2011. "Women as Agents of Change: Female Income and Mobility in India." Journal of Development Economics 94(1):1-17.
Hongwei Xu, Nancy Luke, and Eliya Zulu. 2010. "Concurrent Sexual Partnerships among Youth in Urban Kenya: Prevalence and Partnership Effects." Population Studies 64(3):247-261.
Caroline Kabiru, Nancy Luke, Chimaraoke Izugbara, and Eliya Zulu. 2010. "The Correlates of HIV Testing and Impacts on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Life History Study of Young People in Kisumu, Kenya." BMC Public Health 10:412-423.
Nancy Luke. 2010. "Migrants' Competing Commitments: Sexual Partners in Urban Africa and Remittances to the Rural Origin." American Journal of Sociology 115(5):1435-1479.
Nadia Diamond-Smith, Nancy Luke, and Stephen McGarvey. 2008. " 'Too many girls, too much dowry': Son Preference and Daughter Aversion in Rural Tamil Nadu, India." Culture, Health and Sexuality 10(7):697-708.
Nancy Luke. 2008. "Economic Status, Informal Exchange, and Sexual Risk in Kisumu, Kenya." Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2):375-396.
Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi. 2007. "Social Affiliation and the Demand for Health Services: Caste and Child Health in South India." Journal of Development Economics 83(2):256-279.
Nancy Luke, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Bui Thi Thanh Mai, Pham Vu Thien, and Tran Hung Minh. 2007. "Exploring Couple Attributes and Attitudes and Marital Violence in Vietnam." Violence Against Women 13(1):5-27.
Nancy Luke and Kaivan Munshi. 2006. "New Roles for Marriage in Urban Africa: Kinship Networks and the Labor Market in Kenya." Review of Economics and Statistics 88(2):264-282.
Nancy Luke. 2006. "Exchange and Condom Use in Informal Sexual Relationships in Urban Kenya." Economic Development and Cultural Change 54(2):319-348.
Nancy Luke. 2006. "Local Meanings and Census Categories: Widow Inheritance and the Position of Luo Widows in Kenya." In Etienne van de Walle, ed. African Households: Censuses and Surveys. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Nancy Luke. 2005. "Confronting the 'Sugar Daddy' Stereotype: Age and Economic Asymmetries and Risky Sexual Behavior in Urban Kenya." International Family Planning Perspectives 31(1):6-14.
Nancy Luke. 2005. "Investigating Exchange in Sexual Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa using Survey Data." In Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Iqbal Shah, and Shyam Thapa, eds. Sex without Consent: Young People in Developing Countries. London: Zed Books.
Nancy Luke, Kaivan Munshi, and Mark Rosenzweig. 2004. "Marriage, Networks and Jobs in Third World Cities." Journal of the European Economic Association 2(2-3):437-446.
Nancy Luke. 2003. "Age and Economic Asymmetries in the Sexual Relationships of Adolescent Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa." Studies in Family Planning 34(2):67-86.
Nancy Luke. 2003. "Rariu and Luo Women: Resistance to Men and Medicine in Rural Kenya." In Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, and J.J. Kronenfeld, eds. Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
Nancy Luke and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2002. "Reactions of Developing-Country Elites to International Population Policy." Population and Development Review 28(4):707-733.
Nancy Luke, Ina Warriner, and Susan Cotts Watkins. 2001. "Rariu Doesn't Rhyme with Western Medicine: Lay Beliefs and Illness Networks in Kenya." In C. Makhlouf Obermeyer, ed. Cultural Perspectives of Reproductive Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Karen Hardee, Kokila Agarwal, Nancy Luke, Ellen Wilson, Margaret Pendzich, Marguerite Farrell, and Harry Cross. 1999. "Reproductive Health Policies and Programs in Eight Countries: Progress Since Cairo." International Family Planning Perspectives 25(Suppl.):S2-S9.