Specialization Areas

Coevolution of demographic structure and land use/cover in frontier settings; environmental concern, attitude, and behavior; sustainable consumption; protective behavior against natural hazards

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

Microeconometrics; fuzzy methods; demographic decomposition; multivariate statistics; structural equation modeling; discrete latent class modeling; R; Stata

Unidimensional and multidimensional poverty analysis; income inequality; remittances and rural development; vulnerability analysis and climate change

Field experiments; sampling methods; survey instruments; fieldwork planning and design; data coding and cleaning; mixed-method research designs; mixed-method analytical tools