Kelly Grace
Biographic Data
| ID | 207134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Grace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Grace |
| SIGNATURE | GRACE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4822-6183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Preschools, family social capital, and child development in Cambodia
Objectives This study examined how preschool participation facilitates family social capital and children's development in Cambodia. Background In many developing Asian nations, limited preschool access poses challenges to child development. Drawing on Coleman's social capital theory, this study examines how Cambodia's informal preschools facilitate family social capital and support child development. Method Data were collected from 756 parents/c…
Climate change and getting pregnant
Research on how climate affects conceptions is limited and often constrained by data limitations. Additionally, scientific knowledge is typically based on research focused on very poor or wealthy settings. Here, we examine two middle-income and climate-sensitive contexts, Armenia and Tajikistan, and use finely detailed data on local weather conditions and all conceptions, including those not ending in a live birth. We fit fixed-effects linear pro…
Population and Climate Change
This article explores the potential for the development of a climate change-informed demography. Climate change impacts society in some ways that demographers are best suited to evaluate, providing a setting for demographers to advance foundational theories of demographic change. By considering demography in the context of climate change and climate change in the context of demographic change, climate change demography has the potential to expand…
Covid-19 and Contraceptive Use in Two African Countries
Women in Africa may have experienced conflicting pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the unpredictable nature of the pandemic was prompting some women to delay pregnancies, the pandemic was potentially limiting access to reproductive health services due to supply shortages, fears of virus exposure, and mobility restrictions. In this study, we used longitudinal data from Kenya and Burkina Faso and applied a multilevel perspective to bett…
Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso
Seasonal shifts in community-level agricultural production and their impact on the severity of the annual hunger season and household coping behaviors are important themes in climate change-health research. The relationship between seasonal variability, childbearing, and reproductive health, however, is less well understood. In this research, we combine detailed, spatially referenced Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) data collected for Burk…
Trust and Covid precautionary measures during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines how trust was associated with social distancing during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Burkina Faso and Kenya. It fills gaps in previous research on trust and health by 1) simultaneously considering the relationship of individual- and aggregate-level indicators of trust, and 2) evaluating trust in local government and national government separately. Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) data on COVID-precautionary…
Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals
Agricultural production and household food security are hypothesized to play a critical role connecting climate change to downstream effects on women's health, especially in communities dependent on rainfed agriculture. Seasonal variability in agriculture strains food and income resources and makes it a challenging time for households to manage a pregnancy or afford a new child. Yet, there are few direct assessments of the role locally varying ag…
Considering soil moisture in models of climate impacts on child health in farming-centric countries
Investigating the impacts of rainfall, armed conflict, and Covid-19 shocks on women’s household decision-making among partnered women in Burkina Faso
Migration Theory in Climate Mobility Research
The purpose of this article is to explore how migration theory is invoked in empirical studies of climate-related migration, and to provide suggestions for engagement with theory in the emerging field of climate mobility. Theory is critical for understanding processes we observe in social-ecological systems because it points to a specific locus of attention for research, shapes research questions, guides quantitative model development, influences…
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
Significance Increased extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect threatens rapidly growing urban settlements worldwide. Yet, because we do not know where urban population growth and extreme heat intersect, we have limited capacity to reduce the impacts of urban extreme heat exposure. Here, we leverage fine-resolution temperature and population data to measure urban extreme heat exposure for 13,115 cities from…
How high frequency food diaries can transform understanding of food security
Globally, around 2 billion people are affected by moderate to severe food insecurity. The linkages from food security through to environmental sustainability are well established, but not yet well measured. This is a critical gap, as it hampers our understanding of how environmental shocks carry through to become consumption shocks to households, communities, or regions; how responses to these shocks (e.g., dietary substitutions) feed back into f…
Climatic conditions and infant care
Climate variability and health in extremely vulnerable communities
In this project we consider the ways that different livelihood strategies impact the climate-health linkage. Specifically, we build on knowledge of livestock mobility in the Sahel and use remotely sensed-based measures of waterholes with health survey data to investigate the linkages between child health outcomes related to food security. We focus on the landscape characteristics relevant to limitedly studied, but highly climate-vulnerable popula…
Exploring Strategies for Investigating the Mechanisms Linking Climate and Individual-Level Child Health Outcomes
The goal of this article is to consider data solutions to investigate the differential pathways that connect climate/weather variability to child health outcomes. We apply several measures capturing different aspects of climate/weather variability to different time periods of in utero exposure. The measures are designed to capture the complexities of climate-related risks and isolate their impacts based on the timing and duration of exposure. Spe…
A capabilities approach to female graduates’ post-secondary academic and career-related goal pursuit in Siem Reap Cambodia
Investigating the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Fertility Preferences in Tanzania
Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa
Stunted from the start
Building an interdisciplinary framework to advance conceptual and technical aspects of population-environment research focused on women's and children's health
Parenting Practices and Child Mortality in Remarried/Repartnered Families in Cambodia
Based on the patriarchal gender role perspective, this study examines the associations between parenting practices and child mortality. Using the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey consisting of 7,165 ever-married women (M=28.70 years old), the results showed that mothers' and fathers' level of involvement and nutritional feeding were lower in remarried/re-partnered households compared to those in first-time married and divorced househol…
The Socialization of Gender-Based Aggression
Investigating demographic processes using innovative combinations of remotely sensed and demographic data
People and Pixels 20 years later
Integrating Environmental Context into DHS Analysis While Protecting Participant Confidentiality
Stunted from the start
Linking climate change and health outcomes
Child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change
Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as …
Integrating Environmental Context into DHS Analysis While Protecting Participant Confidentiality
Examining the link between food prices and food insecurity
Examining rural Sahelian out-migration in the context of climate change
Climate, Birth Weight, and Agricultural Livelihoods in Kenya and Mali
Objectives. To examine an association between climate variability and birth weight in Mali and Kenya in relation to the local agricultural specialization. Methods. We combined health and sociodemographic data from the Demographic Health Surveys for Kenya (2008 and 2014) and Mali (2006 and 2012) with detailed data on precipitation, temperature, and vegetation. We analyzed the association between climate variability and birth weight by using multil…
Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa
Do markets and trade help or hurt the global food system adapt to climate change
Exploring Strategies for Investigating the Mechanisms Linking Climate and Individual-Level Child Health Outcomes
The goal of this article is to consider data solutions to investigate the differential pathways that connect climate/weather variability to child health outcomes. We apply several measures capturing different aspects of climate/weather variability to different time periods of in utero exposure. The measures are designed to capture the complexities of climate-related risks and isolate their impacts based on the timing and duration of exposure. Spe…
People and Pixels 20 years later
Climatic conditions and infant care
Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals
Agricultural production and household food security are hypothesized to play a critical role connecting climate change to downstream effects on women's health, especially in communities dependent on rainfed agriculture. Seasonal variability in agriculture strains food and income resources and makes it a challenging time for households to manage a pregnancy or afford a new child. Yet, there are few direct assessments of the role locally varying ag…
Building an interdisciplinary framework to advance conceptual and technical aspects of population-environment research focused on women's and children's health
A qualitative investigation of childbearing and seasonal hunger in peri-urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Investigating important interactions between water and food security for child health in Burkina Faso
Can Small-Scale Agricultural Production Improve Children's Health? Examining Stunting Vulnerability among Very Young Children in Mali, West Africa
Stunting affects an individual's educational and wage-earning potential and can even affect the next generation of children. Most research of childhood stunting focuses on the determinants and correlates that lead to stunting—through nutritional or early infant experiences, with one potential solution to stunting being an increased supply of locally produced food. This research examines the interplay of community-level cropped area as a factor re…
Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
The notion that increasing prevalence of cohabitation relative to marriage, and increasing age at first marriage are part of a broader shift in societal norms -- a second demographic transition -- is now well supported by studies focused on US and European
From Schoolgirls to “Virtuous” Khmer Women
Chbab Srey (Code of Conduct for Women) is an important piece of Khmer literature outlining expected behavior for girls and women in Cambodia. Pieces of the poem are taught in secondary school and interwoven into the educational experiences of girls and female teachers, yet there is little research on Chbab Srey in education. Using discourse analysis, this article considers the influence of Chbab Srey on gender-related education policy in Cambodia…
Ethnic Dimensions of Guatemala’s Stalled Transition
In some contemporary populations, fertility levels appear to plateau, with women maintaining a consistently high level of fertility for a relatively extended period. Because this plateau does not reflect the historical patterns observed in Europe, the focus of most studies on fertility patterns, mechanisms underlying the plateau and the reinstatement of a decline have not been fully explored and are not fully understood. Through the construction …
Contraceptive use and intent in Guatemala
Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertility rates in the Western Hemisphere. These rates are particularly extreme for the poorest segment of the population and for the indigenous population. T
Climate change and getting pregnant
Research on how climate affects conceptions is limited and often constrained by data limitations. Additionally, scientific knowledge is typically based on research focused on very poor or wealthy settings. Here, we examine two middle-income and climate-sensitive contexts, Armenia and Tajikistan, and use finely detailed data on local weather conditions and all conceptions, including those not ending in a live birth. We fit fixed-effects linear pro…
Covid-19 and Contraceptive Use in Two African Countries
Women in Africa may have experienced conflicting pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the unpredictable nature of the pandemic was prompting some women to delay pregnancies, the pandemic was potentially limiting access to reproductive health services due to supply shortages, fears of virus exposure, and mobility restrictions. In this study, we used longitudinal data from Kenya and Burkina Faso and applied a multilevel perspective to bett…
The Socialization of Gender-Based Aggression
Contraceptive use and intent in Guatemala
Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertility rates in the Western Hemisphere. These rates are particularly extreme for the poorest segment of the population and for the indigenous population. T
Child malnutrition and climate in Sub-Saharan Africa
Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression
Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries
Examining the link between food prices and food insecurity
Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change
Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as …
Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
The notion that increasing prevalence of cohabitation relative to marriage, and increasing age at first marriage are part of a broader shift in societal norms -- a second demographic transition -- is now well supported by studies focused on US and European
Linking climate change and health outcomes
Ethnic Dimensions of Guatemala’s Stalled Transition
In some contemporary populations, fertility levels appear to plateau, with women maintaining a consistently high level of fertility for a relatively extended period. Because this plateau does not reflect the historical patterns observed in Europe, the focus of most studies on fertility patterns, mechanisms underlying the plateau and the reinstatement of a decline have not been fully explored and are not fully understood. Through the construction …
Can Small-Scale Agricultural Production Improve Children's Health? Examining Stunting Vulnerability among Very Young Children in Mali, West Africa
Stunting affects an individual's educational and wage-earning potential and can even affect the next generation of children. Most research of childhood stunting focuses on the determinants and correlates that lead to stunting—through nutritional or early infant experiences, with one potential solution to stunting being an increased supply of locally produced food. This research examines the interplay of community-level cropped area as a factor re…
Child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa
Do markets and trade help or hurt the global food system adapt to climate change
A qualitative investigation of childbearing and seasonal hunger in peri-urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Investigating important interactions between water and food security for child health in Burkina Faso
From Schoolgirls to “Virtuous” Khmer Women
Chbab Srey (Code of Conduct for Women) is an important piece of Khmer literature outlining expected behavior for girls and women in Cambodia. Pieces of the poem are taught in secondary school and interwoven into the educational experiences of girls and female teachers, yet there is little research on Chbab Srey in education. Using discourse analysis, this article considers the influence of Chbab Srey on gender-related education policy in Cambodia…
Examining rural Sahelian out-migration in the context of climate change
Climate, Birth Weight, and Agricultural Livelihoods in Kenya and Mali
Objectives. To examine an association between climate variability and birth weight in Mali and Kenya in relation to the local agricultural specialization. Methods. We combined health and sociodemographic data from the Demographic Health Surveys for Kenya (2008 and 2014) and Mali (2006 and 2012) with detailed data on precipitation, temperature, and vegetation. We analyzed the association between climate variability and birth weight by using multil…
The Socialization of Gender-Based Aggression
Investigating demographic processes using innovative combinations of remotely sensed and demographic data
People and Pixels 20 years later
Integrating Environmental Context into DHS Analysis While Protecting Participant Confidentiality
A capabilities approach to female graduates’ post-secondary academic and career-related goal pursuit in Siem Reap Cambodia
Investigating the Relationship between Food Insecurity and Fertility Preferences in Tanzania
Investigating the linkages between pregnancy outcomes and climate in sub-Saharan Africa
Stunted from the start
Geography (31 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Economics (20 works) · Population (18 works) · Agriculture (17 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (15 works) · Climate change (15 works) · Demography (15 works)