Program for Saturday, April 6th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH: TALK VIEW

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07:00-08:00 Continental Breakfast

07:00-08:00 Review of Regional Studies Editorial Board Meeting (Invitation Only)

07:30-12:00 Registration Desk/Exhibits Open

08:00-08:25

Residential Homophily in Rural Minnesota Meatpacking Communities

Thomas Krumel

08:25-08:50

The Economic Impact of Small Regional Commissions: Evidence From the Delta Regional Authority

Tyler Morin

08:50-09:15

The Impact of Refugees on the Housing Market in Receiving Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Mariel

Kichan Kim

09:15-09:40

How Do Landfills Impact Surrounding Property Values?

Bijeta Bijen Saha, Christa Court, Conner Mullally

08:00-08:25

The Analysis of the Disparity of Regional Economic Inequality in China Based on the Theil Index

Yun Zhuang

08:25-08:50

PCPI Trends

John Connaughton, Caroline Swartz

08:50-09:15

American Life Expectancy: Geographic Inequality and Community Interaction

Elizabeth Dobis, Stephan Goetz, Mark Skidmore, Heather Stephens

08:00-08:25

Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Encourage Illicit Opioid Abuse?

Devon Meadowcroft, Brian Whitacre

08:25-08:50

Impact of “Must Access” Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Generalized Synthetic Control

Shishir Shakya

08:50-09:15

Regional Impacts of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths

Elham Erfanian, Randall Jackson, Shree Baba Pokharel

08:00-08:25

Rural Broadband: The Connection to Entrepreneurship by Business Size and Gender

Tessa Conroy, Sarah Low

08:25-08:50

Influence of Broadband on the Native American Economy

John Mann, Elizabeth Mack, Scott Loveridge

08:50-09:15

Data Fusion Techniques for Spatio-Temporal Evaluations of Broadband Availability in Underserved

Elizabeth Mack, John Mann, Scott Loveridge

09:15-09:40

Broadband Speed and Business Startup Rates

Steve Deller, Brian Whitacre, Tessa Conroy

08:00-08:25

Plastic Predicament: Regional Analysis of the Use and Disposal of LDPE Plastic in Agriculture

Christa Court, Spiro Stefanou

08:25-08:50

Exploring the Relationship Between Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in

Nyakundi Michieka, Noha H. A. Razek, Richard Gearhart

08:50-09:15

The Effect of State Net Metering Policy Design on Distributed Solar PV Adoption

Eric Bowen

09:15-09:40

A Safe Minimum Standard, and Elasticity of Substitution, and the Cleanup of the Ganges in Varanasi

Shiqi Xing, Amit Batabyal

09:45-10:15 Break

10:15-10:40

Middle Class Economics and Regional Economic Performance: Let the U.S. Metro-Level Data Speak

Rosa Hyun Kyong Lee

10:40-11:05

The Effect of Metropolitan Technological Progress on the Nonmetropolitan Labor Market: Evidence From U.S. Patent

Oudom Hean

11:05-11:30

Preference Matching, Income, and Population Distribution in Urban and Adjacent Rural Regions

Amit Batabyal, Hamid Beladi

10:15-10:40

Exploring Spatial Patterns of Pedestrian Crash Fatalities in Ohio

Rebekka Apardian, Alam Bhuiyan

10:40-11:05

Estimating the Relationship Between Guns and Crime Using New Data

Bríd Hanna

11:05-11:30

The Convergence of Small Island Economies: The Role of Trade

Leslie Dunn

10:15-10:40

Has Broadband Availability ‘Flattened’ Direct Marketing Opportunities for Rural Farms? An Examiniation of Online

Jeffrey O’hara, Sarah Low

10:40-11:05

Contribution of Overdose Death and Economic Distress to Rural Out-Migration

Samuel Taylor, Heather Stephens, Daniel Grossman

11:05-11:30

The Effects of Experience on Attribute Non-Attendance: Evidence From a Choice Experiment for a Market

Scott Lemos

10:15-10:40

California Proposition 8: Voters Reject the "Fair Pricing for Dialysis Act"

Tuyen Pham, Shishir Shakya

10:40-11:05

Do Spaniards Vote With Their Feet? The Case of the Spanish Inheritance Tax

Rafael González-Val, Miriam Marcén

11:05-11:30

The Contribution of Age and Education for Unemployment Dynamics in Germany

Carsten Ochsen

12:15-13:30 Luncheon - Business Meeting - Presidential Address (Sarah Low, University of Missouri)

13:30-13:55

What’s Art Got to Do With It: Do Creative Hobbies Make STEM Workers More Inventive?

Tim Wojan, Bonnie Nichols, Peter Lenze, Timothy Slaper

13:55-14:20

Rural Arts and Culture Through the Lens of the Comprehensive Wealth Framework

Thomas Johnson, J. Matthew Fannin, Emily Wornell, Charles Fluharty, Sam Cordes

14:20-14:45

Using Local Public Goods to Attract and Retain the Creative Class: A Tale of Two Cities

Amit Batabyal, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp

13:30-13:55

Estimation of a Social Interaction Model With Endogenous Network Formation

Olivier Parent, Huibin Weng

13:55-14:20

Bayesian Model Comparison for Space-Time Dynamic Panel Models

James Lesage, Yao-Yu Chih

14:20-14:45

On the Importance of Good Measurement: Does Moran's I Measure Spatial Dependence?

Oleg Smirnov

14:45-15:10

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Spatial Dynamic Panel Models for Large Samples

James LeSage, Yao-Yu Chih, Colin Vance

13:30-13:55

Asymmetry in Growth and Decline: Multipliers, Housing Prices and Rustbelt Decline

Michael Hicks

13:55-14:20

Rural Afforable Housing Issues in the United States

Tyler Morin

14:20-14:45

Neighborhood Identity and Housing Prices

Doug Woodward, Joseph Von Nessen, Paulo Guimaraes, Marian Manic

14:45-15:10

The Capitalization of Metro Rail Access in Urban Housing Markets

Zachary Keeler, Heather Stephens

13:30-13:55

Out-of-State Enrollments in Public Universities: Crowd-Out or Cross-Subsidize Residents?

Nattanicha Chairassamee

13:55-14:20

A Second Stand in the Schoolhouse Door: Are Public Schools Resegregating?

Amanda Ross, Erik Johnson, Michael Finnegan, Laura Razzolini

14:20-14:45

Do Public Libraries Impact Local Labor Markets? Evidence From Appalachia

Amir Ferreira Neto

13:30-13:55

Community Economic Impacts of Lowering the Drinking Water Standard for Arsenic in New Hampshire Municipal Water

P. McKibben, S. Lemos, J. Halstead, R. Mohr, R. Woodward, P. Susca

13:55-14:20

The Impact of Social Capital on Health Outcomes in the Appalachian Region

Julie Marshall, Logan Thomas

14:20-14:45

Regional Accessibility to Abortion Providers

Mark Burkey