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Sara Lopus

Sara Lopus

 

Associate Professor

Fields

  • Population studies 
  • Migration
  • Marriage
  • Parental investments
  • Food security
  • Quantitative methods
  • Africa 

Contact Information


 

Education

  • PhD Demography, UC Berkeley
  • MS International Agricultural Development, UC Davis
  • BS Environmental Sciences, UC Berkeley 
  • Sara Lopus CV

 

Courses Taught

  • SOC 110: Comparative Societies 
  • SOC 308: Sociology of the Environment
  • SOC 315: Global Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOC 321: Migration
  • SOC 355: Quantitative Research Methods
  • SOC 431: World Population: Processes and Problems
  • SOC 464: Professional Development for Sociologists 

 

Selected Publications

  • Sara Lopus and Margaret Frye (equal authorship). (2020) "Intra-marital status differences across Africa's educational expansion," Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(2): 733-750. 

  • Stacey Giroux, Paul McCord, Sara Lopus, et al. (2020) "Environmental heterogeneity and commodity sharing in smallholder agroecosystems," PLOS ONE, 15(1):e0228021. 

  • Margaret Frye and Sara Lopus (equal authorship). (2018) “From privilege to prevalence: Contextual effects of women’s schooling on African marital timing,” Demography, 55(6): 2371-2394. **Article of the Year Award, ASA Family Section** 

  • Sara Lopus, Paul McCord, Drew Gower, and Tom Evans. (2017) “Drivers of farmer satisfaction with small-scale irrigation systems,” Journal of Applied Geography, 89: 77-86. 

  • Sara Lopus. (2017) “Relatives in residence: Relatedness of household members drives schooling differentials in Mozambique,” Journal of Marriage and Family, 79(4): 897-914. 

  • Sara E. Lopus, Maria Paz Santibanez, Robert H. Beede, et al. (2010) “Almond growers’ nutrition programs are assessed and compared with theoretical best management practices,” California Agriculture, 64(3): 149-154.

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