2026 David K. Guilkey: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	61	1374	1224	643	564	168	11951

Overview

David K. Guilkey is a researcher affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, focusing primarily on topics related to global maternal and child health, poverty, education, and child welfare, as well as healthcare policy and management.

Their recent publications demonstrate an engagement with demographic and public health issues. Notable papers include:

Food Price and Diet and Health Outcomes: 20 Years of the CARDIA Study, 2020, UNC Libraries
Does Provider Bias Affect Choice of a Facility for Family Planning Services by Women in Urban Senegal?, 2022, Studies in Family Planning
Environment and physical activity dynamics: The role of residential self-selection, 2020, UNC Libraries
The direct and indirect effects of community beliefs and attitudes on postpartum contraceptive method choice among young women ages 15-24 in Nigeria, 2022, PLoS ONE
The Examination of Diffusion Effects on Modern Contraceptive Use in Nigeria, 2020, Demography

Their scholarly output has been published in a range of venues, with a concentration in:

UNC Libraries
Studies in Family Planning
PLoS ONE
Demography
Reproductive Health

David K. Guilkey frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of their frequent coauthors include:

Ilene S. Speizer
Barry M. Popkin
Lisa M. Calhoun
Penny Gordon-Larsen
Jennifer Winston

Their research involves various subfields of study, particularly:

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Economics and Econometrics
Gender Studies
Safety Research
General Health Professions

Key topics covered in their work include:

Global Maternal and Child Health
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Healthcare Policy and Management
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Urban Transport and Accessibility

Best Publications

Binary Outcomes and Endogenous Explanatory Variables: Tests and Solutions with an Application to the Demand for Contraceptive Use in Tunisia*

Kenneth A. Bollen;David K. Guilkey;Thomas A. Mroz

409
Citations
A COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THREE FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONAL FORMS

David K. Guilkey;C. A. Knox Lovell;Robin C. Sickles

405
Citations
Child-Care Availability and Fertility in Norway

Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;S. Philip Morgan;ØYstein Kravdal

397
Citations
Small Sample Properties of Three Tests for Granger-Causal Ordering in a Bivariate Stochastic System

David K. Guilkey;Michael K. Salemi

388
Citations
Child care availability and first-birth timing in Norway

Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;S. Philip Morgan;Øystein Kravdal

357
Citations
Age-Specific Determinants of Stunting in Filipino Children

Linda S. Adair;David K. Guilkey

347
Citations
Quality of services and demand for health care in Nigeria: a multinomial probit estimation.

Akin Js;Guilkey Dk;Denton Eh

307
Citations
The Demand for Primary Health Care Services in the Bicol Region of the Philippines

John S. Akin;Charles C. Griffin;David K. Guilkey;Barry M. Popkin

293
Citations
Weekend eating in the united states is linked with greater energy, fat, and alcohol intake

Pamela S. Haines;Mary Y. Hama;David K. Guilkey;Barry M. Popkin

286
Citations
Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand: A case study of Nang Rong

Barbara Entwisle;Ronald R. Rindfuss;David K. Guilkey;Aphichat Chamratrithirong

280
Citations
Cohort Profile: The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey

Linda S Adair;Barry M Popkin;John S Akin;David K Guilkey

278
Citations
The Changing Impact of Religion on the Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior of Adolescent Women in the United States

Karin L. Brewster;Elizabeth C. Cooksey;David K. Guilkey;Ronald R. Rindfuss

274
Citations
Accessibility, quality of care and prenatal care use in the Philippines.

Emelita L. Wong;Barry M Popkin;David K Guilkey;John Stephen Akin

254
Citations
Modeling Food Consumption Decisions as a Two-Step Process

Pamela S. Haines;Barry M. Popkin;David K. Guilkey

244
Citations
Food Price and Diet and Health Outcomes: 20 Years of the CARDIA Study

Kiyah J. Duffey;Penny G Gordon-Larsen;James M. Shikany;David K Guilkey

242
Citations
Trends in Breakfast Consumption if US Adults Between 1965 and 1991

Pamela S. Haines;David K. Guilkey;Barry M. Popkin

237
Citations
The Demand for Primary Health Services in the Third World

J. S. Akin;C. C. Griffin;D. K. Guilkey;B. M. Popkin

236
Citations
Estimation and testing in the random effects probit model

David K. Guilkey;James L. Murphy

235
Citations
Environment and physical activity dynamics: The role of residential self-selection

Janne Boone-Heinonen;Penny Gordon-Larsen;David K. Guilkey;David R. Jacobs

225
Citations
The educational consequences of teen childbearing.

Jennifer B. Kane;S. Philip Morgan;Kathleen Mullan Harris;David K. Guilkey

210
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Akin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ilene S. Speizer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Richard E. Bilsborrow University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

S. Philip Morgan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Edward C. Norton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham

James Wyckoff University of Virginia

External Links

Personal website of David K. Guilkey Google Scholar page

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