• Ph.D. Resource Economics, Duke University, 1988
• M.S. Resource Economics, Duke University, 1986
• B.S. Wildlife Ecology and Natural Resources, Cornell University, 1982

Economics of environmental resource management involving multiple resources or user groups. Includes interdependent renewable and nonrenewable resources, regulation of recreational harvesting, multiple use forestry, watershed management planning, siting noxious facilities (e.g., landfills), valuation of environmental qualities, open space preservation and development, land use change, and ecosystem management.

• Swallow, S.K., and M.P. McGonagle. 2006. Public Funding of Environmental Amenities: Contingent Choices using New Taxes or Existing Revenues for Coastal Land Conservation. Land Economics 82(1):56-67.
  
• McGonagle, M.P. and S.K. Swallow. 2005. Open Space and Public Access: A Contingent Choice Application to Coastal Preservation. Land Economics 81(4):477-495.
  
• Jiang, Yong, Stephen K. Swallow, and Michael P. McGonagle. 2005. Context-Sensitive Benefit Transfer Using Stated Choice Models: Specification and Convergent Validity for Policy. Environmental and Resource Economics: (August) 477-499.
  
• Swallow, Stephen K., and Marisa Mazzotta. 2004. Assessing Public Priorities for Experiment Station Research: Contingent Value and Public Preferences for AES Research in Rhode Island. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(4):975-989.
  
• Bauer, Dana Marie, Nicole E. Cyr, Stephen K. Swallow. 2004. Public Preferences for Compensatory Mitigation of Salt Marsh Losses: A Contingent Choice of Alternatives in Rhode Island. Conservation Biology 18(2):401-411.
  
• Johnston, Robert J., Stephen K. Swallow, Timothy J. Tyrrell, and Dana Marie Bauer. 2003. "Rural Amenity Values and Length of Residency," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(4):1000-1015.
  
• Johnston, R.J., S.K. Swallow, D.M. Bauer, C.M. Anderson. 2003. Preferences for Residential Development Attributes and Support for the Policy Process: Implications for Management and Conservation of Rural Landscapes. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 32(1): 65-82.
  
• R.J. Johnston, S.K. Swallow, C.W. Allen, and L.A. Smith. 2002. Designing Multidimensional Environmental Programs: Assessing Tradeoffs and Substitution in Watershed Management Plans. Water Resources Research 38(7): IV1-13.
  
• Johnston, R.J., D.M. Bauer, S.K. Swallow. 2002. Spatial Factors and Stated Preference Values for Public Goods: Considerations for Rural Land Use. Land Economics 78(4):481-500.
  
• Sedjo, R.A., and S.K. Swallow. 2002. Voluntary Eco-Labeling and the Price Premium. Land Economics 78(2):272-284. (RI AES Contribution no. 3885)