Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, chapters and preprints. A fuller, automatically updated list is on Google Scholar and ORCID.

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In revision and accepted

Twenty-five years of evolutionary research on fertility: a review of progress
K. Snopkowski, K.G. Anderson, L. Barrett, H. Colleran, J. Hackman, R. Sear, M.K. Shenk, M. Towner and P. Sheppard
Evolutionary Anthropology (in revision)
Evolution in public health
P. Sheppard and R. Sear
Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology, ed. D. Futuyma. Oxford University Press (accepted)

How family size, household size and birth order are associated with child growth in five countries
P. Sheppard, A. Hassan, L. Spake, R. Chvaja, R. Sear, M. Shenk, J. Shaver and R. Sosis
In preparation
Bridging the expectation gap in breastfeeding: the role of social support
I. Fuller, P. Sheppard, S. Myers, E. Emmott and A. Page
In preparation
Co-parenting among the chaos: what we can learn from parents with toddlers during the UK lockdown
P. Sheppard, J. He, J. Benson and C. Curtis
In preparation

Food environments shape the way mortality influences life-history trajectories
P. Sheppard
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 48: e122
DOI

Using discrete choice modelling to understand the drivers of reproductive delay in the UK
P. Sheppard
International Journal of Population Studies
DOI
The role of ontogeny in human evolutionary demography
P. Sheppard and D. Coall
Chapter 10 in Human Evolutionary Demography, eds O. Burger, R. Lee and R. Sear. Open Book Publishers

Zahavi, Amotz and Avishag
P. Sheppard
Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior

Father-toddler bonding during the Covid-19 lockdown: qualitative insights from 17 families in Britain
P. Sheppard and M. Brough
Social Sciences 11(12): 542
Fertility decision-making in the UK: insights from a qualitative study among British men and women
M. Brough and P. Sheppard
Social Sciences 11(9): 409
DOI

Behavioral ecology of the family: harnessing theory to better understand variation in human families
P. Sheppard and K. Snopkowski
Social Sciences 10(7): 275
DOI
Reproducing inequality
P. Sheppard
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online 13(1): 68
Grandparental investment
P. Sheppard
Chapter 19 in The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Parenting, eds V. Weekes-Shackelford and T. Shackelford. Oxford University Press

Using sequence analysis to test if human life histories are coherent strategies
P. Sheppard and Z. Van Winkle
Evolutionary Human Sciences 2: e39
DOI
When does family size matter? Sibship size, socioeconomic status and education in England
P. Sheppard and C. Monden
Evolutionary Human Sciences 2: e51
DOI
What the percentage of births in facilities does not measure: readiness for emergency obstetric care and referral in Senegal
F. Cavallaro, L. Benova, E. Dioukhane, K. Wong, P. Sheppard, A. Faye, E. Radovich, A. Dumont, A. Mbengue, C. Ronsmans and M. Martinez-Alvarez
BMJ Global Health 5(3)

Becoming a first-time grandparent and subjective well-being: a fixed effects approach
P. Sheppard and C. Monden
Journal of Marriage and Family
DOI
Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households
R. Sear, P. Sheppard and D. Coall
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374(1770): 20180124
DOI
Re-examining the benefits of becoming a grandparent: no evidence of positive associations in the United States and England
P. Sheppard and C. Monden
SocArXiv preprint
Preprint

The additive advantage of having educated grandfathers for children's education: evidence from a cross-national sample in Europe
P. Sheppard and C. Monden
European Sociological Review 34(4): 365-380
Grandparent effects on educational outcomes: a systematic review
L. Anderson, P. Sheppard and C. Monden
Sociological Science 5: 114-142
Fatherhood, biosocial perspectives on
P. Sheppard
International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Wiley-Blackwell

Does community-based point-of-care HIV testing reduce late HIV diagnosis? A retrospective study in England and Wales
M. Freeman, S. Desai, N. Cooper, P. Sheppard and M. Brady
International Journal of STD & AIDS 28(11): 1098-1105
DOI

Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate
P. Sheppard and R. Sear
Royal Society Open Science 3: 160069
Developmental influences on human fertility decisions: an evolutionary perspective
D. Coall, M. Tickner, L. McAllister and P. Sheppard
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371(1692): 20150146
DOI
What students want: using a choice modelling approach to estimate student demand
P. Sheppard and R. Smith
Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 38(2): 140-149

Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty?
P. Sheppard, J. Garcia and R. Sear
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1: 332-342
How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development
P. Sheppard, M. Pearce and R. Sear
American Journal of Human Biology 28(3): 356-363

A not-so-grim tale: how childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical US population
P. Sheppard, J. Garcia and R. Sear
PLoS ONE 9(3): e89539
Fostering relations: first sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers
P. Sheppard, S. Schaffnit, J. Garcia and R. Sear
Evolution and Human Behavior 35(3): 161-168
Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in a transitional fertility population
P. Sheppard, K. Snopkowski and R. Sear
Human Nature 25(2): 213-234

Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men
P. Sheppard and R. Sear
Biology Letters 8(2): 237-240
DOI