This research has been funded,in part,by the U.S.National Science Foundation(Directorate for Social,Behavioral and Economic Sciences)award#1416860 to the City University of New York,the Population Council,the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder;It has been supported,in part,by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD066613;Furthermore,this work has been funded,in part,by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship(#G-F-16-53680)from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to D.Balk;Innovative Seed Grant funding from the University of Colorado,support through Earth Lab,a University of Colorado Boulder Grand Challenge Initiative,as well as a development grant received from the University of Colorado Population Center(CUPC)at the Institute of Behavioral Science(University of Colorado Boulder),are acknowledged.
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