Kristina Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2570-3365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How participation in health promotion affects peer-experts and experts-by-experience from vulnerable neighborhoods: A case study from The Netherlands
Residents of vulnerable neighborhoods often experience economic hardship, poor health, and social exclusion. Health promotion in vulnerable neighborhoods is often unsuccessful due to residents’ mistrust toward professionals and governmental institutions and misaligned interventions. Engaging experts-by-experience and peer-experts, people drawing on lived experience to support others, offers a promising means to overcome these hurdles. While this …
Simulating Extinction and its Role in Food Reinforcement Learning for Ultra-Processed Foods
Food environments such as supermarkets and school cafeterias are increasingly dominated by ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).Consumption of these foods is shaped by reinforcement learning, where repeated intake leads to expected rewards.In contrast, encountering foods without consuming them can weaken these expectations through extinction -a process missing in existing models simulating food reinforcement learning.As a result, current models may fail t…
Do urban digital twins need agents
The urban digital twin (UDT) is derived from the original digital-twin concept of a representation of physical assets. This has left the social component of the city underrepresented in UDTs. Here, we discuss what this means for the current maturity stage of UDTs and why better representing human behaviour in UDTs may diversify possibilities to support different types of planning. We contemplate operationalizing the representation of human behavi…
Simulating Covid-19 lockdowns’ impact on depressive symptoms in the northern Netherlands
During the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, a major challenge for policymakers was finding the balance between containing outbreaks and supporting mental health. Although lockdowns slowed COVID-19 transmission, it appears that they also increased the prevalence of depressive symptoms. It is not yet clear whether different, hypothetical lockdown scenarios would have differently impacted the prevalence of depressive symptoms. To that end, we develop…
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–1863
Studies have shown strong relationships between the presence of kin and children's survival outcomes in historical and contemporary low-income contexts. However, this relationship has never been studied among an enslaved population, who encountered extremely harsh living conditions. Examining this relationship among different populations may reveal similarities and differences across contexts. The present study addresses this gap by examining the…
A participatory systems approach in community health promotion: Lessons learnt from an overall evaluation of a program to reduce health inequities
To address the complexity and multi-level dynamics in health promotion, participatory and systems approaches have recently gained attention. We combined these into a participatory systems approach, which actively involves stakeholders in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion initiatives. This approach promotes cross-sector collaboration, shared understanding, joint decision-making, empowerment, and acknowledges the dyna…
Social networks’ role in vegetarian diet adoption and maintenance: A prospective study from the northern Netherlands
Wider adoption and maintenance of vegetarian diets would be mutually beneficial for human and environmental health. Social networks have been identified as a factor that would support this transition. While social networks' role in vegetarian diet adoption has been studied, their role in vegetarian diet maintenance over time has received much less attention. To address this gap, we investigated the extent to which having vegetarian close ties (fa…
Developing an Interdisciplinary Vocabulary of Complexity and Plasticity Using a Case-Study of Plant-Based Diet Adoption
Complexity and plasticity are increasingly popular concepts used to make sense of dynamics in the physical and social worlds. These concepts are relevant to a broad spectrum of disciplines, even disciplines where they are not explicitly used. In this article, we further conceptual understanding of plasticity and complexity from different disciplinary perspectives. We also consider how these concepts relate to one another. To do so, we first revie…
Experiences of resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study among high and low socio-economic status individuals in the Netherlands
Resilience to adverse events is increasingly recognized as important for human health. Socio-economic status (SES) is also frequently identified as a predictor of resilience. However, it is not yet clear how people define resilience in their everyday lives, and whether individuals have different experiences of resilience based on their SES. This study sought to fill these gaps, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic mitigation polic…
Re-examining the social gradient in health: A study of Dutch men, 1850–1984
Today, a social gradient in health is clearly visible. Individuals with higher socio-economic statuses tend to live longer lives, and are less likely to be disabled or chronically ill. However, there is debate over when the social gradient emerged: is it a constant across contexts, or a particular feature of certain societies? Often, social gradients are not found in historical contexts. This is perhaps because historical studies use mortality as…
Casting shadows: Later-life outcomes of stature
The central question in this special issue is a relatively new one in anthropometric history: how did body height affect the life course? This raises the issue of whether such an effect merely captures the underlying early-life conditions that impact growth, or whether some independent effect of stature can be discerned. Further, the effects of height on later-life outcomes need not be linear. These effects may also differ by gender, by context (…
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend
Over the past two centuries, the Dutch experienced a tremendous secular trend in height, and ultimately became the tallest nation in the world. Improving environmental conditions likely played the largest role in explaining these developments. But it is not yet precisely clear what factor set the Dutch head and shoulders above other nations, who were also experiencing improving environmental conditions. Could fertility also have played a role? To…
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws
Legal scholars have long studied why laws are implemented differently across local court contexts. Key to understanding this localized variation is understanding how new laws are communicated, interpreted, and negotiated within the legal field. Few studies, however, have directly examined the process by which court actors interpret and negotiate new laws within the court. We explore these sensemaking processes through interviews and observations …
Justice by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities
Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However, court systems differ considerably across communities of varying population size, composition, and density. This article examines how differences in court structure and organizational dynamics in communities across the rural-urban continuum lead to differences in how…
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women
Adult height is a remarkably accurate summary of early-life environmental conditions. Because of that, height may be negatively associated with mortality. These relationships–between early-life conditions and height, and between height and mortality–have been well-studied in modern samples of both genders, and in historical samples of men. However, these relationships are understudied historical samples of women. Therefore, this study aimed to be…
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: An instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900
Height and labor market outcomes appear to be related to one another. The taller people are, the more likely they are to have better jobs and to earn more money. This is especially the case for men. However, whether height is causally related to labor market outcomes is an open question, which instrumental variable (IV) analysis may help to answer. To our knowledge, no study has yet used IV analysis to test these relationships in a historical con…
The Roots of the Obesity Boom. The Relationship Between Overweight and Educational Level Among Dutch Men, 1950–1979
While in modern, high-income populations, obesity is associated with being from a low socio-economic background, this may not have always been the case. We test the relationship between obesity and educational level (as a proxy for socio-economic status) in a historical cohort of Dutch military conscripts, from the conscription years 1950–1979. We find that in the 1950s cohort, being in tertiary education was significantly associated with an incr…
Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-1900
Adult body height appears to be significantly associated with marital outcomes: taller men across contexts have been found to be more likely to be married, and more likely to be married at younger ages. We are interested in exploring both outcomes individually and simultaneously, while using an unique, individual-level dataset of Dutch men and their brothers born between 1841 and 1900. To do so, we exploit survival models and cure models. While s…
The Enduring Influence of Cohort Characteristics on Race-Specific Homicide Rates
This study extends research on cohort effects and crime by considering how bifurcated population dynamics and institutional constraints explain variation in homicide rates across racial groups in the United States. Drawing upon the extensive research on racial residential segregation and institutional segmentation, we theorize how the criminogenic influences of cohort characteristics elucidated in prior work will be greater for Black cohorts than…
Assessing health outcomes in the aftermath of the great recession: A comparison of Spain and the Netherlands
We find evidence that financial security's influence on health outcomes may vary in different contexts. This may be an important aspect of determining the Great Recession's influence on health outcomes. Our study is a first step in understanding how the relationships between financial security and health may differ in countries with different experiences of the Great Recession
Grow fast, die young? The causes and consequences of adult height and prolonged growth in nineteenth century Maastricht
Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: The case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847
Grow fast, die young? The causes and consequences of adult height and prolonged growth in nineteenth century Maastricht
Justice by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities
Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However, court systems differ considerably across communities of varying population size, composition, and density. This article examines how differences in court structure and organizational dynamics in communities across the rural-urban continuum lead to differences in how…
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws
Legal scholars have long studied why laws are implemented differently across local court contexts. Key to understanding this localized variation is understanding how new laws are communicated, interpreted, and negotiated within the legal field. Few studies, however, have directly examined the process by which court actors interpret and negotiate new laws within the court. We explore these sensemaking processes through interviews and observations …
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: An instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900
Height and labor market outcomes appear to be related to one another. The taller people are, the more likely they are to have better jobs and to earn more money. This is especially the case for men. However, whether height is causally related to labor market outcomes is an open question, which instrumental variable (IV) analysis may help to answer. To our knowledge, no study has yet used IV analysis to test these relationships in a historical con…
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women
Adult height is a remarkably accurate summary of early-life environmental conditions. Because of that, height may be negatively associated with mortality. These relationships–between early-life conditions and height, and between height and mortality–have been well-studied in modern samples of both genders, and in historical samples of men. However, these relationships are understudied historical samples of women. Therefore, this study aimed to be…
Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: The case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847
The Enduring Influence of Cohort Characteristics on Race-Specific Homicide Rates
This study extends research on cohort effects and crime by considering how bifurcated population dynamics and institutional constraints explain variation in homicide rates across racial groups in the United States. Drawing upon the extensive research on racial residential segregation and institutional segmentation, we theorize how the criminogenic influences of cohort characteristics elucidated in prior work will be greater for Black cohorts than…
Assessing health outcomes in the aftermath of the great recession: A comparison of Spain and the Netherlands
We find evidence that financial security's influence on health outcomes may vary in different contexts. This may be an important aspect of determining the Great Recession's influence on health outcomes. Our study is a first step in understanding how the relationships between financial security and health may differ in countries with different experiences of the Great Recession
Grow fast, die young? The causes and consequences of adult height and prolonged growth in nineteenth century Maastricht
The Roots of the Obesity Boom. The Relationship Between Overweight and Educational Level Among Dutch Men, 1950–1979
While in modern, high-income populations, obesity is associated with being from a low socio-economic background, this may not have always been the case. We test the relationship between obesity and educational level (as a proxy for socio-economic status) in a historical cohort of Dutch military conscripts, from the conscription years 1950–1979. We find that in the 1950s cohort, being in tertiary education was significantly associated with an incr…
Height and marital outcomes in the Netherlands, birth years 1841-1900
Adult body height appears to be significantly associated with marital outcomes: taller men across contexts have been found to be more likely to be married, and more likely to be married at younger ages. We are interested in exploring both outcomes individually and simultaneously, while using an unique, individual-level dataset of Dutch men and their brothers born between 1841 and 1900. To do so, we exploit survival models and cure models. While s…
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend
Over the past two centuries, the Dutch experienced a tremendous secular trend in height, and ultimately became the tallest nation in the world. Improving environmental conditions likely played the largest role in explaining these developments. But it is not yet precisely clear what factor set the Dutch head and shoulders above other nations, who were also experiencing improving environmental conditions. Could fertility also have played a role? To…
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws
Legal scholars have long studied why laws are implemented differently across local court contexts. Key to understanding this localized variation is understanding how new laws are communicated, interpreted, and negotiated within the legal field. Few studies, however, have directly examined the process by which court actors interpret and negotiate new laws within the court. We explore these sensemaking processes through interviews and observations …
Justice by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities
Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of court systems. Previous studies have focused largely on these sanctions at the state level or solely on large urban jurisdictions. However, court systems differ considerably across communities of varying population size, composition, and density. This article examines how differences in court structure and organizational dynamics in communities across the rural-urban continuum lead to differences in how…
Early-life conditions, height and mortality of nineteenth-century Dutch vagrant women
Adult height is a remarkably accurate summary of early-life environmental conditions. Because of that, height may be negatively associated with mortality. These relationships–between early-life conditions and height, and between height and mortality–have been well-studied in modern samples of both genders, and in historical samples of men. However, these relationships are understudied historical samples of women. Therefore, this study aimed to be…
Height, occupation, and intergenerational mobility: An instrumental variable analysis of Dutch men, birth years 1850-1900
Height and labor market outcomes appear to be related to one another. The taller people are, the more likely they are to have better jobs and to earn more money. This is especially the case for men. However, whether height is causally related to labor market outcomes is an open question, which instrumental variable (IV) analysis may help to answer. To our knowledge, no study has yet used IV analysis to test these relationships in a historical con…
Experiences of resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study among high and low socio-economic status individuals in the Netherlands
Resilience to adverse events is increasingly recognized as important for human health. Socio-economic status (SES) is also frequently identified as a predictor of resilience. However, it is not yet clear how people define resilience in their everyday lives, and whether individuals have different experiences of resilience based on their SES. This study sought to fill these gaps, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic mitigation polic…
Re-examining the social gradient in health: A study of Dutch men, 1850–1984
Today, a social gradient in health is clearly visible. Individuals with higher socio-economic statuses tend to live longer lives, and are less likely to be disabled or chronically ill. However, there is debate over when the social gradient emerged: is it a constant across contexts, or a particular feature of certain societies? Often, social gradients are not found in historical contexts. This is perhaps because historical studies use mortality as…
Casting shadows: Later-life outcomes of stature
The central question in this special issue is a relatively new one in anthropometric history: how did body height affect the life course? This raises the issue of whether such an effect merely captures the underlying early-life conditions that impact growth, or whether some independent effect of stature can be discerned. Further, the effects of height on later-life outcomes need not be linear. These effects may also differ by gender, by context (…
A participatory systems approach in community health promotion: Lessons learnt from an overall evaluation of a program to reduce health inequities
To address the complexity and multi-level dynamics in health promotion, participatory and systems approaches have recently gained attention. We combined these into a participatory systems approach, which actively involves stakeholders in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion initiatives. This approach promotes cross-sector collaboration, shared understanding, joint decision-making, empowerment, and acknowledges the dyna…
Social networks’ role in vegetarian diet adoption and maintenance: A prospective study from the northern Netherlands
Wider adoption and maintenance of vegetarian diets would be mutually beneficial for human and environmental health. Social networks have been identified as a factor that would support this transition. While social networks' role in vegetarian diet adoption has been studied, their role in vegetarian diet maintenance over time has received much less attention. To address this gap, we investigated the extent to which having vegetarian close ties (fa…
Developing an Interdisciplinary Vocabulary of Complexity and Plasticity Using a Case-Study of Plant-Based Diet Adoption
Complexity and plasticity are increasingly popular concepts used to make sense of dynamics in the physical and social worlds. These concepts are relevant to a broad spectrum of disciplines, even disciplines where they are not explicitly used. In this article, we further conceptual understanding of plasticity and complexity from different disciplinary perspectives. We also consider how these concepts relate to one another. To do so, we first revie…
How participation in health promotion affects peer-experts and experts-by-experience from vulnerable neighborhoods: A case study from The Netherlands
Residents of vulnerable neighborhoods often experience economic hardship, poor health, and social exclusion. Health promotion in vulnerable neighborhoods is often unsuccessful due to residents’ mistrust toward professionals and governmental institutions and misaligned interventions. Engaging experts-by-experience and peer-experts, people drawing on lived experience to support others, offers a promising means to overcome these hurdles. While this …
Simulating Extinction and its Role in Food Reinforcement Learning for Ultra-Processed Foods
Food environments such as supermarkets and school cafeterias are increasingly dominated by ultraprocessed foods (UPFs).Consumption of these foods is shaped by reinforcement learning, where repeated intake leads to expected rewards.In contrast, encountering foods without consuming them can weaken these expectations through extinction -a process missing in existing models simulating food reinforcement learning.As a result, current models may fail t…
Do urban digital twins need agents
The urban digital twin (UDT) is derived from the original digital-twin concept of a representation of physical assets. This has left the social component of the city underrepresented in UDTs. Here, we discuss what this means for the current maturity stage of UDTs and why better representing human behaviour in UDTs may diversify possibilities to support different types of planning. We contemplate operationalizing the representation of human behavi…
Simulating Covid-19 lockdowns’ impact on depressive symptoms in the northern Netherlands
During the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, a major challenge for policymakers was finding the balance between containing outbreaks and supporting mental health. Although lockdowns slowed COVID-19 transmission, it appears that they also increased the prevalence of depressive symptoms. It is not yet clear whether different, hypothetical lockdown scenarios would have differently impacted the prevalence of depressive symptoms. To that end, we develop…
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery: Evidence From the Surinamese Slave Registers, 1830–1863
Studies have shown strong relationships between the presence of kin and children's survival outcomes in historical and contemporary low-income contexts. However, this relationship has never been studied among an enslaved population, who encountered extremely harsh living conditions. Examining this relationship among different populations may reveal similarities and differences across contexts. The present study addresses this gap by examining the…
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