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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Henrique Veras de Paiva Fonseca |
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) Discussant: Amir B. Ferreira Neto |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Víctor Hugo Torres Preciado |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Shourish Chakravarty |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Rafael Garduno-Rivera |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez |
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) Discussant: Zachary Klingensmith |
14:00-15:45 Session 6C: Housing & Real Estate Markets
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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 7A: Organized Session: Regional Data and the Federal Statistical System: New directions
Chair:
Location: Franklin
16:15 | Hybrid Panel Session (abstract) |
16:15-18:00 Session 7B: Economic Growth & Development III
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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 |
17:00-19:00 Reception
Location: Atrium
18:00-19:00 Session 8: Undergraduate Poster Session
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Tauã Magalhães Vital |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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 |