2020 SRSA: 2020 SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, April 2nd Friday, April 3rd Saturday, April 4th

Thursday, April 2nd

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14:30-16:00 Session 2A: Energy & the Environment I
Location: Forsyth
14:30
Estimating the cost savings in power generation due to updated wind forecasting models (abstract)
Discussant: Michael Betz
15:05
Assessing Fuel Price’s Impacts on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Interstate Freight Transportation (abstract)
Discussant: Jason Brown
15:27
Local Economic Impacts of the Boom and Bust in the Oil and Gas Industry (abstract)
Discussant: Da Fei
15:49
The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality (abstract)
Discussant: Luyi Han
14:30-16:00 Session 2B: Labor Markets
Chair:
Location: Franklin
14:30
The Heterogeneity of Minimum Wage Effects Across States (abstract)
Discussant: Sultana Fouzia
14:52
Does the Quality of Life Mitigate the effects of Labor Demand Shocks? (abstract)
Discussant: Ian Bryant
15:14
Local Labor Market Impacts of Climate-Related Disasters: A Supply and Demand Analysis (abstract)
Discussant: John Winters
15:36
Do Workers Benefit from Resource Booms in Their Home State? Evidence from the Fracking Era (abstract)
Discussant: Michael Hicks
14:30-16:00 Session 2C: Community Health and Wellbeing I
Location: Oglethorpe AB
14:30
The Long-Run Effects of In-Utero Exposure to Malaria: Evidence from the Brazilian Eradication Campaign (abstract)
Discussant: Willis Lewis
15:00
Obesity in the South (abstract)
Discussant: Julie Marshall
15:30
Diabetes and Oral Health in South Carolina’s Medicaid Population (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 2D: Firm Location & Markets I
Chair:
Location: Chatham
14:30
Direct Flights and Cross-border Mergers And Acquisitions (abstract)
Discussant: Yejun Choi
14:55
Gaussian Process Regression Estimation of Food Manufacturing Entry-Exits (abstract)
15:25
The Effects of Dollar General Opening on Next Door Firms (abstract)
Discussant: Lixia Lambert
16:30-18:00 Session 3A: Organized Session: Opioid Crisis I-Industry/Occupation Connections with the Opioid Crisis
Location: Franklin
16:30
County Analysis of the Impact of Oil and Gas Booms and Busts on Opioid Overdose Deaths (abstract)
Discussant: Julie Marshall
17:00
Opioid Abuse and Work-Related Risk at the County Level (abstract)
Discussant: Elham Erfanian
17:30
The Relationship between Opioid-Related Deaths and High-Risk Jobs (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 3B: Spatial Modeling
Location: Forsyth
16:30
Data Error and Spatial resolution: An Exploration in light of Differential privacy and the U.S. Census (abstract)
Discussant: Jhon J Mora
16:52
Spatial Youth Labor Participation in a Developing Country (abstract)
Discussant: Angela Hallowell
17:14
Spatial Evidence of Regional Melting Pots and Salad Bowls (abstract)
17:36
¿Is there tax competition among Mexican states? A spatial econometric analysis of state governments’ income tax policy (abstract)
Discussant: Christopher Blake
16:30-18:00 Session 3C: Community Health and Wellbeing II
Location: Oglethorpe AB
16:30
"Meds and eds": healthcare, education, and human capital across the rural-urban continuum (abstract)
Discussant: Timothy Slaper
17:00
Third Places or Art Spaces: Using Web Activity to Differentiate the Cultural Dimensions of Entrepreneurship Across Regions (abstract)
Discussant: Deepmala Pokhriyal
17:30
Do Financial Incentives Matter for Maternal Healthcare? Evidence from Programs in India (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 3D: Economic Growth & Development I
Location: Chatham
16:30
The relative performance of states in the Lower Midwest and the Upper South 1980-2016 (abstract)
Discussant: John Connaughton
17:00
Trends in State Productivity over the Business Cycle (abstract)
Discussant: Brandon Genetin
17:30
Field-of-Study Mismatch and the Impact on Economic Growth (abstract)
Discussant: John Connaughton
Friday, April 3rd

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08:00-09:45 Session 4A: Organized Session: Opioid Crisis II-Informing Policy Choices through Regional Analysis
Location: Franklin
08:00
Understanding Rural Resiliency and Vulnerability to Prescription Opioids: A Mixed Methods Approach (abstract)
08:30
Regional Impacts of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths (abstract)
Discussant: Brian Osoba
09:00
Panel Session: Foundations and Challenges for Informing Public Policy through Regional Analysis (abstract)
08:00-09:45 Session 4B: Urban Economics I
Location: Oglethorpe AB
08:00
Pedestrian Crash Analysis Using Walkability and Sociodemographic Factors (abstract)
Discussant: Sicheng Wang
08:21
How ridesourcing regulations affect urban traffic?: A New York case (abstract)
08:42
DO HOUSEHOLD REMITTANCES REDUCE VIOLENT CRIME IN MEXICO? EVIDENCE USING A SPATIAL REGRESSION APPROACH (abstract)
Discussant: Rebekka Apardian
09:03
An Aggregate Approach to Quality of Life in Micropolitan Areas (abstract)
Discussant: John Winters
09:24
Minimum Wages and Teen Employment across the Urban Hierarchy (abstract)
Discussant: Amanda Weinstein
08:00-09:45 Session 4C: Neighborhoods, Communities & Education
Location: Forsyth
08:00
Compulsory Attendance Year by Birth-Month and College Scholarship; Addressing Selection into Treatment In Merit-Aid Funding Assignment (abstract)
Discussant: Huibin Weng
08:25
General neighborhood effects and network formation: the impact of friendship on educational outcome (abstract)
Discussant: Kenneth Whaley
08:50
Local Wealth and the Market for Homes Near Racially Diverse Schools (abstract)
Discussant: Olivier Parent
08:00-09:45 Session 4D: Economic Growth & Development II
Location: Chatham
08:00
Impacts of anti-poverty programs on land use change – the case of NREGS in India (abstract)
Discussant: Eduardo Almeida
08:25
Regional absorptive capacity: what patent citations data can tell us? (abstract)
08:50
Measuring Phase Transitions in Regional Economies: Economic Cycles, Industry Restructuring and Adaptation (abstract)
Discussant: Seunghoon Oh
09:15
Public Transportation Investment and Regional Growth: A Panel Data Analysis on The Impact of Transit Authority Revenues on Agglomeration Economies in Ohio. (abstract)
Discussant: Timothy Slaper
08:00-09:45 Session 4E: Hazards & Disaster I
Chair:
Location: Johnson
08:00
Salience of Hazard Disclosure and House Prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand (abstract)
Discussant: Iqra Naz Raja
08:30
Flood Disaster Risk Financing Analysis using RS & GIS (abstract)
Discussant: Jaeho Jung
09:00
Hurricanes and an evidence of adaptation in local government finance (abstract)
Discussant: Huang
10:15-12:00 Session 5A: NE-1749 Organized Session: Rural Health Care
Location: Forsyth
10:15
Rural Healthcare Providers: Preliminary Survey Findings (abstract)
Discussant: Alison Davis
10:30
Access to Rural Health Care and Labor Productivity (abstract)
Discussant: Sarah Low
11:00
Economic Targeting with Inclusion of Potential Automation Impacts: Focus on the Health Care Sector (abstract)
Discussant: Steve Deller
11:30
The Future of Emergency Medical Services (EMS): A System in Crisis (abstract)
Discussant: Thomas Harris
10:15-12:00 Session 5B: Climate
Location: Franklin
10:15
Extraction, Analysis and Simulation of Climate Change patterns (abstract)
Discussant: Sandy Dall'Erba
10:40
The U.S. Interstate Trade Will Overcome the Negative Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Profit (abstract)
11:05
The Differential Impacts of Climate Change in the US-MX Border Region (abstract)
Discussant: Harvey Cutler
11:30
Estimating the economic value of updated precipitation forecasting models due to "better" commuting decisions (abstract)
Discussant: Iqra Naz Raja
10:15-12:00 Session 5C: Firm Location & Markets II
Location: Chatham
10:15
The Capital Purchase Program’s Effect on Firm Dynamics over the Business Cycle (abstract)
Discussant: Becca Jablonski
10:40
The Role of Young Firms in Economic Growth (abstract)
Discussant: Terry Rephann
11:05
Single Sales Factor Apportionment as An Economic Development Incentive: Evidence from An Elective Program for Manufacturing Firms in Virginia (abstract)
Discussant: Jonas Crews
11:30
AGRICULTURAL MANUFACTURING LOCATION DECISIONS IN COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY (abstract)
Discussant: Kevin Duncan
10:15-12:00 Session 5D: Hazards & Disaster II
Location: Johnson
10:15
Identifying Effective Factors in Physical Vulnerability to Flood, Case Study of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (abstract)
Discussant: Bijeta Bijen Saha
10:40
Impact of the Florida Red Tide Events on Recreational Fishing in the Western Florida (abstract)
Discussant: Anahita Mahmoudi
11:05
The Impact of a chemical spill on the long-term economic growth of a region (abstract)
Discussant: Rebecca Hill
11:30
Estimating the Reduction in Freeze and Frost Losses to Agriculture associated with Improved Weather Forecasts (abstract)
Discussant: Samuel Taylor
10:15-12:00 Session 5E: Public & Fiscal Policy I
Chair:
Location: Oglethorpe AB
10:15
Tax Benefits and Regional Development: Evidence from Colombia (abstract)
10:40
The effects of intergovernmental transfers on inter- and intra-regional income disparities (abstract)
11:05
Minority Depository Institutions: Why So Few — After 150 Years? New News — Poor and Risky Performance Is Not the Answer! (abstract)
Discussant: Diogo Baerlocher
14:00-15:45 Session 6A: NE-1749 Organized Session: Growing Up in Rural America: How “Place” Shapes Adolescent Choices and Adult Economic Outcomes
Location: Forsyth
14:00
Born to Serve? How Rurality, Economic Opportunity, and Civic Engagement Impact the Decision to Join the Military (abstract)
Discussant: Mindy Crandall
14:30
Community influences on youth educational aspirations in rural, resource-dependent places (abstract)
Discussant: Craig Carpenter
15:00
Growing Up in Rural America: How Place Shapes Education, Health, Family and Economic Outcomes (abstract)
Discussant: Sarah Low
14:00-15:45 Session 6B: Migration
Location: Franklin
14:00
Immigrant perception, poverty and political insights (abstract)
Discussant: Annie Lee
14:30
Migration in a System of Cities: Social Network Analysis of an Agent-Based Model of Zipf Cities (abstract)
15:00
Can Immigration Save the Legacy Cities? A Case Study of the Erie Economy (abstract)
Discussant: Keith Waters
15:30
Can legal status help the undocumented immigrants achieve the American Dream? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (abstract)
14:00-15:45 Session 6C: Housing & Real Estate Markets
Location: Oglethorpe AB
14:00
It’s the Smell: How Resolving Uncertainty about Local Disamenties Affects the Housing Market (abstract)
Discussant: Matthew Gnagey
14:21
Are Improvements to Outdoor Recreation Access Capitalized into Home Values? (abstract)
Discussant: Beau Sauley
14:42
When the Levy Breaks: How Failing Renewal School Levies Affects Housing Prices (abstract)
Discussant: Robert Carey
15:03
Schools, Property Tax Relief, and Residential Development: The Effects of SC Act 388 on Housing Value (abstract)
Discussant: Tyler Morin
15:24
Trailer Park Woes: Market Decisions for American Manufactured Housing (abstract)
Discussant: Christopher Yencha
14:00-15:45 Session 6D: Public & Fiscal Policy II
Location: Pulaski 2
14:00
Cold Bacon: Co-Partisan Politics in Brazil (abstract)
Discussant: Nikita Lopatin
14:25
Credit Constraints and Spillover Effects of Financial Market Liberalization: Case of Colombia (abstract)
Discussant: Diogo Baerlocher
15:00
Tax Increment Financing and School Funding: Unraveling Equalization in Oklahoma (abstract)
Discussant: Nikita Lopatin
15:35
The Natural Rate of Structure Depreciation: Decoupling Capital Gains and Maintenance Improvement from Property Value Variation (abstract)
Discussant: Cynthia Rogers
14:00-15:45 Session 6E: Regional Impact Analysis I
Location: Johnson
14:00
Economic Contribution and Impact Analysis of the 2019 Flood’s Disruption of the Oklahoma-McClellan-Kerr Navigation System (abstract)
Discussant: Margaret Bock
14:25
(Federally-Funded) Country Roads: The Impact of the Appalachian Development Highway System on Mortality (abstract)
Discussant: Kelsey Conley
14:50
Decomposition of Native American Earnings (abstract)
Discussant: Katie Welch
16:15-18:00 Session 7B: Economic Growth & Development III
Location: Chatham
16:15
The Long and Winding Road: Roads, Politics and Growth in Colombia. (abstract)
Discussant: Andrew Crawley
16:40
A Thematic Approach to Regional Economic Development (abstract)
Discussant: Bienvenido Cortes
17:05
Business Cycles, Industry Mix, and Micropolitan Areas: The Case of the Plains Region (abstract)
Discussant: Luis Quintero
16:15-18:00 Session 7C: Innovation & Entrepreneurship I
Location: Pulaski 2
16:15
Talent Agglomeration in the United States: An Analysis of U.S. Census Microdata (abstract)
Discussant: Heather Stephens
16:50
Industries, Occupations, and Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions (abstract)
Discussant: Timothy Wojan
17:25
Mapping Innovation: Results from the 2018 Annual Business Survey (abstract)
Discussant: Marian Manic
16:15-18:00 Session 7D: Regional Impact Analysis II
Location: Johnson
16:15
Data requirements and methods for assessing the economic contributions of aquaculture activity (abstract)
Discussant: Allison Bauman
16:50
Value-Added Food and Agriculture Sector and Rural Wealth Creation across the U.S. (abstract)
Discussant: David Christafore
17:15
The Impact of Land Use Regulations and Natural Amenities on County Growth (abstract)
Discussant: Randall Jackson
17:40
Regional Impacts Assessments, Regional Purchases, and Regional Input-Output Modeling Frameworks (abstract)
Discussant: Kelsey Conley
16:15-18:00 Session 7E: Rural Broadband
Location: Oglethorpe AB
16:15
The Need for Speed: Rural Broadband and Entrepreneurship by Business Size and Gender (abstract)
Discussant: Anil Rupasingha
16:36
Impacts of Rural Utilities Service Broadband Investment (BIP) on Business Outcomes (abstract)
Discussant: Matthew Kures
16:57
Do Regional Differences Matter in the Effectiveness of Broadband Policy? (abstract)
Discussant: John Pender
17:18
Concentration and Co-location Patterns of Information and Communication Technology Establishments: A Comparison of Approaches Using Establishment Level and Spatially-Aggregated Data (abstract)
Discussant: Tessa Conroy
17:39
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on Broadband Availability and House Sale Prices (abstract)
Discussant: Hyun Ji Lee
18:00-19:00 Session 8: Undergraduate Poster Session
Location: Atrium
18:00
When numbers lie, using data to influence rather than inform opinions and resource allocation (abstract)
18:00
Eclipsonomics: Estimating the Effects of the Great American Eclipse (abstract)
18:00
Effect of Farm-Size Change on Rural Community Well-Being (abstract)
18:00
Redefining Defense: The United States DoD and the Fight Against Climate Change (abstract)
Saturday, April 4th

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08:00-09:45 Session 9A: Organized Session: The Evolving Geographical Distribution of Inequality
Chair:
Location: Franklin
08:00
Tapestry: A Collaborative Open Source Data Platform and Analytic Tools for Regional and Rural Development (abstract)
Discussant: Osborne Jackson
08:30
The Impact of Migration on Earnings Inequality (abstract)
Discussant: James Davies
09:00
Persistent shocks and incomplete regional adjustment: A model averaging approach (abstract)
Discussant: Jonathan Rothbaum
09:30
The Geography of Opportunity Over Time (abstract)
Discussant: Phil Watson
08:00-09:45 Session 9B: Energy & the Environment II
Location: Forsyth
08:00
Aid Modality and Effectiveness: The Case of Tanzania and Lessons to South Korea (abstract)
Discussant: Amit Batabyal
08:35
A Political-Economy Model of the Ganges Pollution Cleanup Problem (abstract)
Discussant: Luyi Han
09:10
Too Much to Innovate? The Effects of Shale Boom on Local Patenting (abstract)
Discussant: Jinhwan Oh
08:00-09:45 Session 9C: Innovation & Entrepreneurship II
Location: Pulaski 2
08:00
Can Government Investment Spur Rural Innovative Activity? (abstract)
Discussant: Dawn Thilmany
08:25
Push, Pull or Preference? Exploring Drivers and Challenges for the On-Demand Colorado Economy (abstract)
Discussant: Kanat Abdulla
08:50
Regional differences in human capital and occupational choice: Evidence from Mexico (abstract)
Discussant: John Mann
08:00-09:45 Session 9D: Statistical & Econometric Methods I
Location: Johnson
08:00
Comparing distributional impact estimates in spatially aggregated versus disaggregated CGE models (abstract)
Discussant: Jingwen Li
08:35
Estimate Long Run and Short Run Armington Elasticities for Large Multi-Country CGE Models (abstract)
09:10
The Impact of Municipal Police on Crime in Brazil: an approach based on spatial LASSO difference-in-difference (abstract)
Discussant: Martin Shields
08:00-09:45 Session 9E: Organized Session: Environmental Accounting Applications and Methods in the United States
Location: Oglethorpe AB
08:00
Regionalization of Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Models: Application to USEEIO (abstract)
Discussant: Andre Avelino
08:30
Evaluating economic and environmental effects of local material flow changes with a regionalized version of USEEIO (abstract)
Discussant: Joao Ferreira
09:00
The Evolving Environmental Impacts of the United States Economy, 2002-2012: a harmonized time-series of environmentally extended input-output tables (abstract)
Discussant: Wesley Ingwersen
10:15-12:00 Session 10A: Organized Session: SRSA 50th Anniversary Special Session
Location: Pulaski 2
10:15
The Glass Ceiling and the Black Box: Are they Still there? (abstract)
Discussant: Christa Court
10:45
Interdisciplinary to Transdisciplinary: Transforming Regional Science to Solve Wicked Problems (abstract)
Discussant: Brian Cushing
11:15
What Regional Science has Taught Us and How It Can Still Contribute to our Understanding of the Opioid Crisis (abstract)
Discussant: Tessa Conroy
10:15-12:00 Session 10B: Urban Economics II
Location: Oglethorpe AB
10:15
The Value of Sports Facilities: Evidence From Los Angeles (abstract)
Discussant: Carlianne Patrick
10:50
The Value of Historic Distric Status in Georgia (abstract)
Discussant: Aurelie Lalanne
11:25
Big, Medium and Small sized-cities within a French Regional Urban System: Which differences of growth processes? The case of Nouvelle-Aquitaine from 1800 to 2016 (abstract)
Discussant: Amit Batabyal
12:00
Decentralized versus Centralized Provision of Urban Anti-Crime Technologies in a Model with Three Cities (abstract)
Discussant: Heather Stephens
10:15-12:00 Session 10C: Regional Impact Analysis III
Location: Chatham
10:15
Exchange rate and price deflators as determinants of inter-country trade – an input-output approach (abstract)
Discussant: Brian Sloboda
10:50
An Economic Impact Analysis of Farmers Markets in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area (abstract)
Discussant: Peter Wynkoop
11:25
Jacksonville Clay Target Sports Club Economic Impact Report (abstract)
Discussant: Christa Court
10:15-12:00 Session 10D: Statistical & Econometric Methods II
Location: Johnson
10:15
Multivariate singular spectrum analysis (MSSA) and systems view of housing starts and national/regional socioeconomic factors (abstract)
Discussant: Matthew Fannin
10:40
Applying Demand Threshold Analysis to Hold “Metropolitan Character” Constant for Core-Based Statistical Area Definitions (abstract)
Discussant: Yue Ke
11:05
Transportation’s Role in Regional Economic Resilience: Using Stakeholder-Driven Data in Structural Equation Models (abstract)
Discussant: Santiago Pinto
11:30
Voting, lobbying, and trade policy: A structural estimation framework (abstract)
Discussant: Ayad Hammadi