Environmental Demography and Psychology
Coevolution of demographic structure and land use/cover in frontier settings; environmental concern, attitude, and behavior; sustainable consumption; protective behavior against natural hazards
Migration
Determinants of international migration; motivations and consequences of remittances for family formation and local development; empirical models of migration at the community, family, and individual level; environmentally driven outmigration; mobility patterns
Quantitative Methods
Microeconometrics; fuzzy methods; network analysis; demographic decomposition; multivariate statistics; structural equation modeling; discrete latent class modeling; R; Stata
Development
Unidimensional and multidimensional poverty analysis; income inequality; remittances and rural development; vulnerability analysis and climate change
Field Methods
Field experiments; sampling methods; survey instruments; fieldwork planning and design; data coding and cleaning; mixed-method research designs; mixed-method analytical tools
Spatial Demography
Spatial pattern analysis of demographic events and rates, Bayes spatial smoothing, spatial interpolation for raster data, spatial econometrics