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Stuart Sweeney

Stuart Sweeney
Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Director of Geography

Stuart Sweeney’s academic research interests span topics from applied statistics, spatial analysis, economic geography, demography, health, gender, and development. For the Demography Emphasis, he occasionally teaches a graduate course on mathematical demography and rotates through coverage of the core graduate demography course. His research has been supported by NSF, donor funds, and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

$613,576 (PI) 2019-2024 Gender, fertility, and intra-household dynamics and resilience in the Senegalese peanut value chain. Feed the Future Lab for Peanut (Univ. of Georgia), USAID

$2,385,881 (PI) Effectiveness of GALS Intervention in the Context of Groundnut Commercialization. Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut (University of Georgia), USAID [UCSB share $1,181,919] 20

UC Center for New Racial Studies (PI). 2013-14. Central American fertility in Los Angeles translation: Informing statistical models with qualitative context. $12,000 

sweeney@geog.ucsb.edu
805.893.3547
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/stuart-sweeney.html
Biodemography and Evolution
Population Health and Environment
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Publications

Hodges, C. and S. Sweeney. 2024. 
"Food security change in the college student population due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A decline for many, an improvement for a few. "
Social Sciences & Humanities Open 9, 100820.
Research Themes:
Education and Health
Arabadjis, S. D. and S. H. Sweeney. 2024. 
"Residuals in space: Potential pitfalls and applications from single-institution survival analysis. "
Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 49, 100646.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Benoit G*, Cassels S, Ackert E, Sweeney S. In Press. 
"Socio-Demographic Patterning of Urinary Mono-ethyl Phthalate Levels among Children and Adults the U.S. (1999-2018). "
Environmental Research Communications.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
A.T. Murray, J.Baik, V. Echeverri, D. Rini, M.A. Moritz, D.A. Roberts, S.H. Sweeney, L.M.V. Carvalho and C. Jones. 2023. 
"Developing effective wildfire risk mitigation plans for the wildland urban interface. "
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 124, 103531 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103531).
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
A.T. Murray, J.Baik, V. Echeverri, D. Rini, M.A. Moritz, D.A. Roberts, S.H. Sweeney, L.M.V. Carvalho and C. Jones. 2023. 
"Developing effective wildfire risk mitigation plans for the wildland urban interface. "
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 124, 103531 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103531).
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Arabadjis SD, Sweeney SH, Kenner CE, Tedesco DJ. 2023 D.
"Wildfire, Evacuation, and Cardiovascular Events: A Spatial Exposure Approach."
Applied Geography. Vol 159 Online. October. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Sweeney, S. and M. Gomez-Antonio. 2016. 
"Localization and industry clustering econometrics: An assessment of Gibbs models for spatial point processes."
Journal of Regional Science. 
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Grace, K. and S. Sweeney. 2016. 
"Ethnic dimensions of Guatemala's stalled transition: A parity- specific analysis of Ladino and indigenous fertility regimes."
Demography 53(1), 117-138.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Davenport, F., D. Steigerwald, and S. Sweeney. 2016. 
"Open trade, price supports, and regional price behavior in Mexican maize markets."
Economic Geography. 
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Niblett, M., S. Sweeney, R. Church, and K. Barber. 2015. 
"Structure of fisher (Martes pennanti) habitat in a managed forest in an interior Northern California coast range."
Forest Science 61(3), 481-493. 
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Eakin, H., K. Appendini, S. Sweeney, and H. Perales. 2015. 
"Correlates of land use and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico."
World Development 70, 78-91. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Lerner, A., S. Sweeney, and H. Eakin (2014). 
"Growing buildings in corn fields: Urban expansion and the persistence of maize in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico."
Urban Studies51(10), 2185-2201.
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Grace, Kathryn and Stuart Sweeney. 2014.
"Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America."
Demographic Research, 30: 6 (187-226). 
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Eakin, H., C. Bausch, and S. Sweeney (2014). 
"Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform: The 'Maize Boom' of Sinaloa, Mexico."
Journal of Agrarian Change14 (1), 26-51.
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Eakin, H., H. Perales, K. Appendini, and S. Sweeney (2014). 
"Selling Maize in Mexico: The Persistence of Peasant Farming in an Era of Global Markets."
Development and Change. 45(1), 133-155.
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Grace, Kathryn and Stuart Sweeney
"Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries: A case study of Guatemala"
Journal of Population Research. March 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1, 19-37.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Sweeney, S., D. Steigerwald, F. Davenport, and H. Eakin.
"Mexican Maize Production: Evolving Organizational and Spatial Structures since 1980"
Applied Geography 39 (May 2013), 78-92.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Lerner, Amy, Hallie Eakin, Stuart Sweeney
"Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico"
Journal of Rural Studies, volume 30: pages 52-63. 2013
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Sweeney, S., F. Davenport and K. Grace.
"Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: Child malnutrition in Guatemala."
Economics and Human Biology. Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2013, 164-177.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Lerner, A., H. Eakin, and S. Sweeney.
"Characterizing peri-urban households across a rural-urban gradient in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico"
Journal of Rural Studies 20, 52-63.2013.
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution, Family Demography, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Sweeney, S. and K. Grace.
"Regression Analysis of Anthropometry Data: A Simulation Study of a Two-Stage Estimator"
JSM Proceedings, Health Policy Statistics Section, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 2012.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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