About

Although initially trained as a sociologist and demographer, Scott Yabiku's research is characterized by diverse collaborations across disciplines. His interdisciplinary work focuses on how human and natural systems affect each other, spanning the social and natural sciences. His research is also international in scope, with data collections or field work conducted in the United States, Mexico, Mozambique, China, and Nepal. To support his research, he utilizes tools to develop apps and conduct statistical analysis, employing C#, Java, and Xamarin for mobile app development on Windows, Android, and iOS platforms to collect data. For statistical analysis, he uses R and SAS to test hypotheses and visualize data.

Research topics

• Psychology
• Demography
• Geography
• Developmental psychology
• Demographic economics

Recent grants

• CNH: Feedbacks Between Human Community Dynamics and Socioecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot

  NSF · $629k · 2016–2018

• Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes

  NIH · $9.9M · 2015–2022

• Innovation in the Measurement of Community Contextual Features

  NIH · $427k · 2013–2016

• CNH: Feedbacks Between Human Community Dynamics and Socioecological Vulnerability in a Biodiversity Hotspot

  NSF · $1.4M · 2012–2017

• NIH Grant R03HD057357

  NIH · $145k · 2011

Frequent coauthors

• Stephen Kulis

  19 shared

• Flavio F. Marsiglia

  Arizona State University

  17 shared

• Tanya Nieri

  University of California, Riverside

  13 shared

• Jennifer E. Glick

  Pennsylvania State University

  11 shared

• Victor Agadjanian

  University of California, Los Angeles

  8 shared

• Sharon J. Hall

  Arizona State University

  5 shared

• Ashley Crossman

  5 shared

• David Becerra

  Boise State University

  4 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  2002

• M.A., Sociology

  Pennsylvania State University

  1997

• B.A., Sociology

  University of Chicago

  1995

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