Days: Thursday, April 4th Friday, April 5th Saturday, April 6th
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Organizers: Kyle Hood and Christian Awuku-Budu, Bureau of Economic Analysis
14:30 | Development of Regional Satellite Accounts (abstract) Discussant: Thomas Johnson |
14:55 | Governing Global Value Chains: Evidence From Automotive Trade Data (abstract) Discussant: Jiemin Guo |
15:20 | Water Policy and the Common Pool: Examining Crop Choice in California (abstract) Discussant: Daniel Bigelow |
Organizer: Thesia Garner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Session Discussant: Shelly Ver Ploeg, USDA Economic Research Service
14:30 | Moving to the Median, Expanding the Estimation Sample, and Testing Equivalence Scales: Impact on SPM Thresholds and Poverty Statistics (abstract) |
15:00 | Incorporating Amenities Into the Supplemental Poverty Measure (abstract) |
15:30 | Material Well-Being and Poverty: New Evidence Across Poverty Measures (abstract) |
Organizer: Brian Cushing, West Virginia University
14:30 | Well-Being, Job Insecurity and the Opioid Crisis (abstract) Discussant: Devon Meadowcroft |
15:00 | Exploring the geography of the opioid epidemic: A walk on the supply side (abstract) Discussant: Mike Shepard |
15:30 | Contextual and Demographic Factors Influencing Naloxone Use on Overdose Decedents (abstract) Discussant: Collin Hodges |
Organizer: John Connaughton, UNC Charlotte
16:30 | South Carolina Economic Outlook (abstract) |
16:55 | New Jersey Economic Outlook (abstract) |
17:20 | Oklahoma Economic Outlook (abstract) |
17:45 | West Virginia Economic Outlook (abstract) |
18:10 | North Carolina Economic Outlook (abstract) |
16:30 | Do Natural Hazards in the Gulf Coast Still Matter for State-Level Natural Gas Prices? Evidence After the Shale Gas Boom (abstract) Discussant: David Swenson |
16:55 | Who Benefits From Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas (abstract) Discussant: Kuan-Ming Huang |
17:20 | Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence From an Energy Boom and Bust (abstract) Discussant: Shishir Shakya |
17:45 | The Dark Side of the Shale Boom– Increased Crime Among Economically-Small, Relatively Rural American States Generalized Synthetic Control Approach (abstract) Discussant: John Winters |
18:10 | Emerging Energy Investments Economic Impact Challenges: The Interconnection Seam Study as a Case Example (abstract) Discussant: Luyi Han |
16:30 | Economic Development Incentives (EDI) Spending in US States: Toward Convergence? (abstract) Discussant: Doug Woodward |
16:55 | An Examination of the Use of State and Local Tax Incentives and Diversification of the Local Economic Base (abstract) Discussant: Jia Wang |
17:20 | Economic Development Incentives: What Can We Learn From Policy Regime Changes? (abstract) Discussant: Terry Rephann |
17:45 | Incentives and the Location of Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Adrienne DiTommaso |
18:10 | Economic Development Incentive Program Deadweight: The Role of Program Design Features, Firm Characteristics, and Location (abstract) Discussant: Cynthia Rogers |
Organizer: Bruce Weber, Oregon State University
16:30 | Structural Differences in the Neighborhood Characteristics Associated With Social Mobility by Race and Gender (abstract) Discussant: Karina Acosta Ordanez |
16:55 | Agricultural Transformation and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1940-2000 (abstract) Discussant: Karina Acosta Ordanez |
17:20 | Low-Income Household Livelihood Strategies: Food Stamp Access and Private Aid (abstract) Discussant: Karina Acosta Ordanez |
17:45 | Incentivizing the Missing Middle: The Role of Economic Development Policy (abstract) Discussant: Karina Acosta Ordanez |
18:10 | Variations in Rental Cost-Burden in Rural America: Factor Decomposition (abstract) Discussant: J. Matthew Fannin |
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Organizer: Scott Boggess, U.S. Census Bureau
08:00 | Access to Innovation: The Census Data Linkage Infrastructure (abstract) |
08:30 | The Relationship between Household Demographics and the Decision to Apply for FEMA Individual Assistance (abstract) |
09:00 | Research Resources for the Census Longitudinal Infrastructure Project (abstract) |
09:30 | Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US, 1940-2015 (abstract) |
08:00 | Economic Performance Over Time: A Principal Component Analysis on U.S. Metros (abstract) Discussant: Xiaochen Zhang |
08:25 | Defining the Urban Study Area for Mid-Sized Metropolitan Area (abstract) Discussant: Luis Galvis |
08:50 | Unemployment and Quality of Work Life in the Metropolitan Areas of Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta (abstract) Discussant: Rebekka Apardian |
09:15 | How Does the Age Structure Affect Local Economy in the US? (abstract) Discussant: Michael C.Y. Lin |
Organizer: Brian Cushing, West Virginia University
08:00 | Opioids, Marriage, and Economics: Is Marriage Behavior Decreasing Through the Opioid Epidemic? (abstract) Discussant: Shishir Shakya |
08:25 | West Virginia Death Certificate Analysis: Coal Country and the Opioid Crisis (abstract) Discussant: Samia Islam |
08:50 | The Opioid Hydra: Identifying Opioid-Use Mortality Epidemics and Syndemics Across Space (abstract) Discussant: Elham Erfanian |
09:15 | The Impact of Oil and Gas Development on Opioid Overdose Deaths in the U.S. (abstract) Discussant: Brian Lego |
Organizer: Sarah Low, University of Missouri
08:00 | The Geography of Foodies: Exploring the Influence of Place-Based Factors on the Relocalization and Employment Dynamics of Food Manufacturing Establishments (abstract) Discussant: Jeff O'Hara |
08:25 | Do Cottage Food Laws Reduce Barriers to Entry for Food Manufacturers (abstract) Discussant: Martha Bass |
08:50 | Identifying and Framing Tradeoffs among Food System Interventions in Colorado (abstract) Discussant: Sarah Low |
08:00 | The Influence of ARC Funding on Regional Economic Resilience in Appalachia (abstract) Discussant: Sultana Fouzia |
08:25 | The True, the False and the Ugly: Rethinking Measures of Resilience in Light of U.S. Regional Experiences (abstract) Discussant: Samuel Bell |
08:50 | Community Resilience in Climate Related Disasters: What Matters and What Does Not (abstract) Discussant: Brianne Firth |
09:15 | Effects of Trade Patterns on County Economic Resilience (abstract) Discussant: Timothy Slaper |
08:00 | Migration, Education and Technology-Induced Urban Inequality: Evidence From U.S. Patents (abstract) Discussant: Jacob Manlove |
08:25 | Assessing the Need for a Measure of Broadband Adoption Inequality (abstract) Discussant: Rafael González-Val |
08:50 | The Long-Term Relationship Between Economic Development and Regional Inequality: South-West Europe, 1860-2010 (abstract) Discussant: Oudom Hean |
Organizers: Kyle Hood and Christian Awuku-Budu, Bureau of Economic Analysis
10:15 | Gross Domestic Product by County Statistics: A Project Update (abstract) Discussant: Michael Lahr |
10:40 | Valuing Housing Services in the Era of Big Data: A User Cost Approach Leveraging Zillow Microdata (abstract) Discussant: Michael Hicks |
11:05 | Persistent Shocks and Incomplete Regional Adjustment: A Model Averaging Approach (abstract) Discussant: Santiago Pinto |
10:15 | Good Job; Bad Job: Decomposing Regional Wage Differences Into Within and Across Sector Components (abstract) Discussant: Nattanicha Chairassamee |
10:40 | Impacts of Offshoring on Local Labor Market in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Philip Watson |
11:05 | US Interregional Migration With Information From Discrete Regions (abstract) Discussant: Brian Osoba |
11:30 | Religion, Risk Preferences, and Regional Occupational Concentrations (abstract) Discussant: Annie Lee |
10:15 | The Influence of Land Use Regulation on Gentrification (abstract) Discussant: George Akpandjar |
10:40 | A Survival Analysis of the Effect of Homeownership on Unemployment Spell: Evidence From US Data (abstract) Discussant: Rafael González-Val |
11:05 | The Effect of the 2012 Spanish Law Reform to Protect Mortgage Debtors on Regional Foreclosures and Mortgage Loans (abstract) Discussant: Susane Leguizamon |
10:15 | Trends in the Contribution of Agriculture to the Arkansas Economy (abstract) Discussant: Caleb Stair |
10:40 | An Instigator of Economic Activity: The American Alligator's Economic Contributions in Florida (abstract) Discussant: Leah English |
11:05 | Building Rural Wealth Through a Value Chain Approach (abstract) Discussant: Melody Muldrow |
11:30 | Economic Growth Beyond Borders: An Analysis of Rural Transformation From Villages in Uganda to the Black Belt in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Mallory Rahe |
10:15 | Workfare Programs and Household Fuel Usage (abstract) Discussant: Jordan Strater |
10:40 | Potential Solutions for a Recycling Crisis: The Case of Mixed Paper (abstract) Discussant: Shourish Chakravarty |
11:05 | Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Environmentally Friendly Vehicles: Input–Output Approach (abstract) Discussant: Kamran Zendehdel |
11:30 | The Educational and Behavioral Impacts of UDC Campus Sustainability Projects on Students (abstract) Discussant: Hiroyuki Shibusawa |
10:15 | Underestimating Your Neighbors: Reconsidering Tiebout in Municipal Expenditure Spillovers (abstract) Discussant: Anqi Xu |
10:40 | A Spatial Analysis of the Impact of Foreign-Born Population on Home Values and Native Flight in Louisville, Kentucky (abstract) Discussant: Peter Schaeffer |
11:05 | Implications of the Tinbergen Principle (abstract) Discussant: Kevin Willardsen |
Organizers: Kyle Hood and Christian Awuku-Budu, Bureau of Economic Analysis
14:00 | Metropolitan Area Location Choice by Foreign Direct Investors in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Anil Rupasingha |
14:25 | Regression Discontinuity in Spatial Models (abstract) Discussant: James LeSage |
14:50 | Experimental Sub-State Estimates of Personal Consumption Expenditures (abstract) Discussant: Randy Jackson |
14:00 | Intraregional Trade Estimates for Goods-Producing Industries: Tests of RPC Estimates Using EU Data (abstract) Discussant: Xueting Zhao |
14:25 | Modelling Inter-Regional Trade Flows: A New Method Based on Generalized Radiation Model and Multi-Regional GRAS Technique (abstract) Discussant: Da Fei |
14:50 | The Gaps in Retail Gap Analysis (abstract) Discussant: Joao Ferreira |
15:15 | Who Pollutes for Who? Estimating CO2 Emissions Embodied in the U.S. Interstate Trade (abstract) Discussant: Liesl Eathington |
14:00 | The Dual-Earner Households and Gender Differences in Commuting Time (abstract) Discussant: Heather Stephens |
14:25 | Measuring the Impact of Spouse’s Employment Risk on Women’s Self-Employment (abstract) Discussant: J. Sebastian Leguizamon |
14:50 | The Effect of ACA's Medicaid Expansions on Pregnancies Among Poor, Single Women (abstract) Discussant: Annie Lee |
Session in Honor of Brian Cushing
Organizer: Frank Goetzke, University of Louisville
14:00 | Stochastic Dominance and Decomposable Inequality and Poverty Measures (abstract) Discussant: Zheng Tian |
14:25 | Recruitment of Children in Colombian Municipalities an Spatial Probit Approach (abstract) Discussant: Buhong Zheng |
14:50 | The Effect of Federal and State Funding on College Students’ Earnings: A Multilevel Modeling (abstract) Discussant: Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez |
14:00 | The Persistent Effects of Natural Disasters on Opioid Deaths (abstract) Discussant: Paul Lewin |
14:25 | Fiscal Impacts of Natural Disasters on Local Government Budgets (abstract) Discussant: Meri Davlasheridze |
14:50 | Natural Disasters, Public Housing, and the Role of Disaster Aid (abstract) Discussant: Robert Greenbaum |
16:15 | Recent and Forthcoming IMPLAN Data Developments (abstract) |
16:15 | How Do Economic Cycles Effect State Level Labor Matching Efficiencies? (abstract) Discussant: Christopher Blake |
16:40 | Quality in Labor Market Indices in a Region’s Peripheria as Projection of a Region’s Pole. The Case of Bogota and Two Nearby Provinces (abstract) Discussant: Philip Watson |
17:10 | Heritage Language Labor Market Returns: The Importance of Speaker Density at the State-Level (abstract) Discussant: Brian Sloboda |
17:35 | Startup Fever: Vancouver, British Columbia Becomes Hot Spot for Entrepreneurs (abstract) Discussant: Sarah Welch |
16:15 | Factors Driving Regional Labor Force Participation Diversity Between Women in Chinese and Other Asian Communities in the U.S. (abstract) Discussant: Amanda Weinstein |
16:40 | What Women Want: Gender Differences in the Quality of Life and Preferences for Location-Specific Amenities Across Cities (abstract) Discussant: Bonnie Bounds |
17:05 | Bachelor’s Degrees and Bachelorettes: Examining Gender (Im)balance in Higher Educational Attainment Across US Counties (abstract) Discussant: Andrew Crawley |
17:30 | Assessing Gender Differences in the Opportunity Cost of Self-Employment Rates (abstract) Discussant: Ye Yao |
(Session in Honor of Brian Cushing)
Organizer: Frank Goetzke, University of Louisville
16:15 | Urban Transportation and Inter-Jurisdictional Competition (abstract) Discussant: Robert Dunn |
16:40 | Mobility, Race, and Commute Time in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area (abstract) Discussant: Frank Goetzke |
17:05 | Some Empirical Support for the Monocentric City Model (abstract) Discussant: Santiago Pinto |
18:00 | The Impact of Job Insecurity on Mental Wellbeing in the United States (abstract) |
18:00 | Leaving or Staying: Implications of Migration on Intergenerational Mobility in the United States (abstract) |
18:00 | Determinants of Performance in a Specialized Workplace: Evidence From Professional Soccer (abstract) |
18:00 | The Effect of Pharmaceutical Expenditures on Life Expectancy (abstract) |
18:00 | The Impacts of Policies and Investments on the Transition to Renewable Energy (abstract) |
18:00 | Economic and Financial Indicators to Predict Recovery Out of Recessions (abstract) |
18:00 | Commuting Error: Traversing Thresholds to Improve Rural and Urban Area Definitions (abstract) |
18:00 | Marriage, Parenthood, and the Gender Wage Gap: A Utah Case Study (abstract) |
18:00 | Public Policy and Crime: Improving Quality and Quantity of Nightlights and Effect on Crime (abstract) |
18:00 | An Economic Analysis of Medicaid Eligibility Expansions and Their Effect on Teenage Fertility in the United States From 1990 - 2016 (abstract) |
18:00 | Measuring Farm Size, 1959-2012 (abstract) |
18:00 | Domestic Violence in Colombia (abstract) |
18:00 | Percent Change in Farm Operation Sizes of the Southern United States: 2002-2012 (abstract) |
18:00 | The Economic Impact of Refugee Resettlement on Host Cities (abstract) |
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08:00 | Residential Homophily in Rural Minnesota Meatpacking Communities (abstract) Discussant: Tyler Morin |
08:25 | The Economic Impact of Small Regional Commissions: Evidence From the Delta Regional Authority (abstract) Discussant: Kichan Kim |
08:50 | The Impact of Refugees on the Housing Market in Receiving Countries: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Mariel Boatlift (abstract) Discussant: Bijeta Bijen Saha |
09:15 | How Do Landfills Impact Surrounding Property Values? (abstract) Discussant: Thomas Krumel |
08:00 | The Analysis of the Disparity of Regional Economic Inequality in China Based on the Theil Index (abstract) Discussant: John Connaughton |
08:25 | PCPI Trends (abstract) Discussant: Elizabeth Dobis |
08:50 | American Life Expectancy: Geographic Inequality and Community Interaction (abstract) Discussant: Yun Zhuang |
Organizer: Brian Cushing, West Virginia University
08:00 | Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Encourage Illicit Opioid Abuse? (abstract) Discussant: David Peters |
08:25 | Impact of “Must Access” Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: A Generalized Synthetic Control Approach (abstract) Discussant: Zheng Tian |
08:50 | Regional Impacts of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths (abstract) Discussant: Julie Marshall |
Organizers: Tessa Conroy and Steve Deller, University of Wisconsin
NE1749 Multi-State Project Session
08:00 | Rural Broadband: The Connection to Entrepreneurship by Business Size and Gender (abstract) Discussant: John Mann |
08:25 | Influence of Broadband on the Native American Economy (abstract) Discussant: Sarah Low |
08:50 | Data Fusion Techniques for Spatio-Temporal Evaluations of Broadband Availability in Underserved Areas (abstract) Discussant: Steve Deller |
09:15 | Broadband Speed and Business Startup Rates (abstract) Discussant: Elizabeth Mack |
08:00 | Plastic Predicament: Regional Analysis of the Use and Disposal of LDPE Plastic in Agriculture (abstract) Discussant: Eric Bowen |
08:25 | Exploring the Relationship Between Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in Ethiopia (abstract) Discussant: Christa Court |
08:50 | The Effect of State Net Metering Policy Design on Distributed Solar PV Adoption (abstract) Discussant: Amit Batabyal |
09:15 | A Safe Minimum Standard, and Elasticity of Substitution, and the Cleanup of the Ganges in Varanasi (abstract) Discussant: Nyakundi Michieka |
10:15 | Middle Class Economics and Regional Economic Performance: Let the U.S. Metro-Level Data Speak (abstract) Discussant: Oudom Hean |
10:40 | The Effect of Metropolitan Technological Progress on the Nonmetropolitan Labor Market: Evidence From U.S. Patent Counts (abstract) Discussant: Rosa Hyun Kyong Lee |
11:05 | Preference Matching, Income, and Population Distribution in Urban and Adjacent Rural Regions (abstract) Discussant: Santiago Pinto |
10:15 | Exploring Spatial Patterns of Pedestrian Crash Fatalities in Ohio (abstract) Discussant: Brid Hanna |
10:40 | Estimating the Relationship Between Guns and Crime Using New Data (abstract) Discussant: Leslie Dunn |
11:05 | The Convergence of Small Island Economies: The Role of Trade (abstract) Discussant: Rebekka Apardian |
10:15 | Has Broadband Availability ‘Flattened’ Direct Marketing Opportunities for Rural Farms? An Examiniation of Online Marketplaces (abstract) Discussant: Samuel Taylor |
10:40 | Contribution of Overdose Death and Economic Distress to Rural Out-Migration (abstract) Discussant: Scott Lemos |
11:05 | The Effects of Experience on Attribute Non-Attendance: Evidence From a Choice Experiment for a Market Good (abstract) Discussant: Dayton Lambert |
10:15 | California Proposition 8: Voters Reject the "Fair Pricing for Dialysis Act" (abstract) Discussant: Miriam Marcén |
10:40 | Do Spaniards Vote With Their Feet? The Case of the Spanish Inheritance Tax (abstract) Discussant: Carsten Ochsen |
11:05 | The Contribution of Age and Education for Unemployment Dynamics in Germany (abstract) Discussant: Tuyen Pham |
Organizer: Thomas Johnson, University of Missouri
13:30 | What’s Art Got to Do With It: Do Creative Hobbies Make STEM Workers More Inventive? (abstract) Discussant: Thomas Johnson |
13:55 | Rural Arts and Culture Through the Lens of the Comprehensive Wealth Framework (abstract) Discussant: Amit Batabyal |
14:20 | Using Local Public Goods to Attract and Retain the Creative Class: A Tale of Two Cities (abstract) Discussant: Tim Wojan |
13:30 | Estimation of a Social Interaction Model With Endogenous Network Formation (abstract) Discussant: James LeSage |
13:55 | Bayesian Model Comparison for Space-Time Dynamic Panel Models (abstract) Discussant: Oleg Smirnov |
14:20 | On the Importance of Good Measurement: Does Moran's I Measure Spatial Dependence? (abstract) Discussant: James LeSage |
14:45 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Spatial Dynamic Panel Models for Large Samples (abstract) Discussant: Olivier Parent |
13:30 | Asymmetry in Growth and Decline: Multipliers, Housing Prices and Rustbelt Decline (abstract) Discussant: Tyler Morin |
13:55 | Rural Afforable Housing Issues in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Doug Woodward |
14:20 | Neighborhood Identity and Housing Prices (abstract) Discussant: Zachary Keeler |
14:45 | The Capitalization of Metro Rail Access in Urban Housing Markets (abstract) Discussant: Michael Hicks |
13:30 | Out-of-State Enrollments in Public Universities: Crowd-Out or Cross-Subsidize Residents? (abstract) Discussant: Amanda Ross |
13:55 | A Second Stand in the Schoolhouse Door: Are Public Schools Resegregating? (abstract) Discussant: Amir Ferreira Neto |
14:20 | Do Public Libraries Impact Local Labor Markets? Evidence From Appalachia (abstract) Discussant: Nattanicha Chairassamee |
13:30 | Community Economic Impacts of Lowering the Drinking Water Standard for Arsenic in New Hampshire Municipal Water Supplies (abstract) Discussant: Julie Marshall |
13:55 | The Impact of Social Capital on Health Outcomes in the Appalachian Region (abstract) Discussant: Mark Burkey |
14:20 | Regional Accessibility to Abortion Providers (abstract) Discussant: John Halstead |