Program for Friday, March 16th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 16TH: TALK VIEW

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08:30-09:00

The Next Generation of Regional Scientists: A Hybrid Project-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Regional

Anthony Stair, Caleb Stair, Carissa Altizer

09:00-09:30

Charter School Proliferation and School District Fiscal Stress, A Chicken-Egg Problem

Bo Feng

09:30-10:00

Impact of Higher Education Institutions on Regional Economic Development: Evidence from Brazilian

Raissa Carvalho Braganca, Alexandre Alves Porsse

10:00-10:30

2020 Census Challenge: A Functional Sub-State Region/Regional Council Data Set for Research, Policy and Programming in the

Thomas Christoffel

08:30-09:00

Patterns and Determinants of Stretch Commuting Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Matthew Kures, Steven Deller, Tessa Conroy

09:00-09:30

Public Transit Accessibility and Income Segregation

Prottoy Akbar

09:30-10:00

CO2 Emissions of Embodied Freight Transportation in U.S., 2007-2012

Da Fei

10:00-10:30

Demographic and Land Use Modeling for Transit Planning and Management in Urbanizing Areas: A Case Study from Georgia,

Thomas Douthat, Laurie Garrow, Anna Nord

08:30-09:00

The Impact of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Overdose Deaths in the U.S.

Elham Erfanian, Alan Collins, Daniel Grossman

09:00-09:30

Children’s Exposure to Drug Overdose Deaths

Mark Mather, Beth Jarosz, Marissa Slowey

09:30-10:00

The Interaction of Gender, Age Cohort, and Region on Mortality Rates in Kentucky, 1999-2016

Frank O'Connor

10:00-10:30

Wage and Employment Growth in America’s Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

Michael Betz, Lauren Jones

08:30-09:00

The Rise of Digital Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Detroit: The Path of the Automobile Industry and Related Industries to Economic

Fiona Sussan, Brian Sloboda, Lataunya Howard

09:00-09:30

Firm Behavior Across Increasing Levels of Innovation Activity

John Mann

09:30-10:00

The Dynamics and Challenges of the ICT Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Qatar

Tarek Ben Hassen

10:00-10:30

Is There a Tradeoff Between Public and Private Approaches to Downtown Revitalization?

Sayori Kobayashi, Fiona Sussan

10:30-11:00

Artists, Engineers, and Aspects of Economic Growth in a Creative Region

Amit Batabyal, Hamid Beladi

08:30-09:00

The Effect of Amenities and Labor Market Factors on Internal Migration

Annie Lee

09:00-09:30

Local Industrial Structure and Mobility of Displaced Skilled Workers

Orsa Kekezi

09:30-10:00

Labor Compensation Spillover in U.S.–Mixing Spatial and Trade Network Dependency Approach

Shishir Shakya

10:00-10:30

Aggregate Effects and Measuring Regional Dynamics

Ryan Greenaway-Mcgrevy, Kyle Hood

11:00-11:30

The Impact of Rural Land Consolidation on Farmers’ Livelihood Vulnerability: Evidence from Central

Wei Zhao

11:30-12:00

Factors Affecting Restaurant Purchase of Locally Grown Foods

Amanda McLeod, Lily Harris, John Halstead

12:00-12:30

Local Food Marketing: A Retail Choice for Limited Resource Farmers

Erika Leon, Dave Shideler

11:00-11:30

Using a SLX model to Examine the Impact of the Great Recession on Poverty in South Carolina

Willis Lewis, Ferdinand Difurio

11:30-12:00

Poverty and Aging Society: Growing Vulnerability of the United States to Heat Waves

Jungmin Lim, Mark Skidmore

12:00-12:30

Role of Amenities in Estimating Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)

Peter Han, John Pender

11:00-11:30

Resource Dependence and High School Dropout rates in US Counties

Leslie Dunn, Kayla Conforti, Robert Dunn

11:30-12:00

Can Loose Fiscal Strings cause Environmental Pollution? : A Hypothesis from India

Siddhartha Rastogi

12:00-12:30

The Influence of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Diversification

Brianne Zimmerman, Heather Stephens

11:00-11:30

Predicting State-level Gross Job Gains and Losses with Google Trends Data

Zheng Tian, Johan Bollen, Stephan Goetz, Timothy Slaper

11:30-12:00

Large Metros and the Future of the U.S. Economy

John Connaughton, Caroline Swartz

12:00-12:30

High Paying Sectors or Above Average Wages: What Matters More in Regional Wage Disparities

Philip Watson

11:00-11:30

The Impact of Changes in Socioeconomic Status on Obesity Prevalence

Collin Hodges

11:30-12:00

Optimal cooperation of medical care and nursing care in two regions spatial model

Tohru Naito

12:00-12:30

Ambient Air Pollution and Asthma Hospitalization: Evidence of Pennsylvania Counties

Elham Erfanian

14:45-15:15

Are there regional difference in innovation among oil and gas firms?

Brion Goldfinch, Jesse Arnett, Fiona Sussan

15:15-15:45

Regional Employment Impacts from Recent Energy Development Activities in Arkansas, Kansas, and

Kangil Lee, Brian Whitacre

15:45-16:15

Valuing Shale Gas Development in Rural Areas

Zachary Keeler, Heather Stephens

16:15-16:45

Effects of Severance Tax on Economic Activity: Evidence from the Oil Patch

Jason Brown, Peter Maniloff, Dale Manning

14:45-15:15

A Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis of Water in the Southeastern United States

D. Lambert, D. Sheng, B. English, J. Menard, C. Clark, L. Lambert

15:15-15:45

Water-Energy Prototype Model for the NEMS Modeling Platform: Thermoelectric Water Demand and its Implications on Regional Electricity

C. Court, E. Shuster, A. Iyengar, L. Goudarzi, D. Keairns, C. Zelek

15:45-16:15

Estimating Water Demand under a Block Rate Structure: Unraveling Demand and Supply

Cynthia Rogers, Brandli Stitzel

14:45-15:15

Foodies' Delight: The Role of New and Small Food Manufacturing Innovators in Employment Dynamics

Sarah Low, Marcelo Castillo, Dawn Thilmany McFadden

15:15-15:45

Can Declining Business Dynamism Explain Job Changing and Migration Decisions? Evidence from the

Sydney Schreiner

15:45-16:15

Interdependence in the Automotive Supply Chain: Evaluating Skill Demand

Allison Forbes

16:15-16:45

Appalachian Coal Dependence: A Supply Chain Analysis

Randall Jackson, Peter Jarosi

14:45-15:15

The Net Effect of Urban Technological Progress on the Rural Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Patent

Oudom Hean

15:15-15:45

Schumpeterian Creative Class Competition, Innovation Policy, and Regional Economic Growth

Amit Batabyal, Seung Yoo

15:45-16:15

Small Business Innovation Research Awards and Socially Disadvantaged Regions

John Mann, Scott Loveridge, Steve Miller

16:15-16:45

In-State College Enrollment and Later Life Location Decisions

John Winters

14:45-15:15

The Effect of Natural Amenities on Housing Rent/Value Ratios During and After the Financial Crisis

Rodrigo Perez-Silva, Mark Partridge, Alessandra Faggian, Philip Graves

15:15-15:45

The Effect of Household Debt and Wealth on Subsequent Tenure Choice

Donovan Anderson, John Hisnanick, Hye-Sung Han

15:45-16:15

Do Gay Male and Lesbian Couples Cause Gentrification?

Mia Goodnature, Daniel Henderson, Amanda Ross

16:15-16:45

Rural Housing and Economic Development

Steven Deller, Matt Kures, Tessa Conroy

17:30

The Effects of Transparency on Governance and Development

Kayla Conforti

17:30

Taxation and its Effects on Human Rights Abuses

Caridad Dominguez

17:30

New Hampshire Restaurant's Local Agricultural Product Purchasing Habits: A Statistical Analysis

Lily Harris

17:30

NMR Guided Screening for Biocatalyzed Transformations

Jonnathan Marin

17:30

On the Potential Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Women in Poverty in Philadelphia

Mykhalo Petrovskyy

17:30

What Influence Does State Level Economic and Demographic Elements Have on its Level of Educational

Joshua St. Clair

17:30

High Voltage Transmission: What the US Can Learn from Indonesia

Ceclia White

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

12:30-14:30 Awards Luncheon and Fellows Address (Peter Schaeffer, "The Rules of the Game")

17:00-18:00 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP: MEDIA TRAINING (open to all)

18:30-20:30 Reception