PROGRAM
Days: Monday, April 4th Thursday, April 7th Friday, April 8th Saturday, April 9th
Monday, April 4th
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13:00-15:00 Session 1: Graduate Student Virtual Session
All sessions are scheduled in U.S. Central Time.
| 13:00 | Does road network structure affect air pollution stocks and flows? Evidence from road closures in Virginia (abstract) Discussant: Christa Court |
| 13:30 | Demographic Transition and Census Tract Economic Opportunity: A Study of Colorado (abstract) Discussant: David Peters |
| 14:00 | Skill Specificity and the Matching Microfoundation (abstract) PRESENTER: Henry Woodyard Discussant: Santiago Pinto |
| 14:30 | Fertility Divergence Across Large and Small Areas (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiaoyin Li Discussant: Michael Betz |
Thursday, April 7th
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15:30-17:30 Session 2: State Economic Outlooks
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 15:30 | South Carolina Outlook (abstract) |
| 16:00 | West Virginia Outlook (abstract) |
| 16:30 | North Carolina Outlook (abstract) |
Friday, April 8th
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08:00-10:00 Session 3A: Economic Effects of Government
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 08:00 | Industry Regulation Spillover Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Tomas Sayago Discussant: J. Sebastian Leguizamon |
| 08:30 | Business-Friendly Lobbying and State Economic Outcomes (abstract) PRESENTER: J. Sebastian Leguizamon Discussant: Amanda Weinstein |
| 09:00 | The Impact of Military Service on Intergenerational Mobility (abstract) Discussant: Carlianne Patrick |
| 09:30 | How Economic Development Incentives affect Racial and Gender Segregation of Employment and Wages (abstract) PRESENTER: Carlianne Patrick Discussant: Juan Tomas Sayago |
08:00-10:00 Session 3B: Housing Prices
Chair:
Location: Bonnell
| 08:00 | Do people pay to avoid Black neighbors? (abstract) PRESENTER: Tammy Leonard Discussant: Michael Carroll |
| 08:30 | Craft Breweries Location and the Impact Residential Property Values (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael Carroll Discussant: Zheng Tian |
| 09:00 | The Rise of Housing Price in Urban-Rural Areas During the COVID-19 Pandemic (abstract) PRESENTER: Zheng Tian Discussant: Tammy Leonard |
08:00-10:00 Session 3C: COVID-19
Chair:
Location: Bickler
| 08:00 | Regional Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Recession (abstract) PRESENTER: John Connaughton Discussant: Rebekka Apardian |
| 08:30 | Using neighborhood-level changes to evaluate pedestrian safety initiatives: COVID-19 as a sudden-shock experiment (abstract) PRESENTER: Rebekka Apardian Discussant: Stephen Ellis |
| 09:00 | The ABCs of Motivated Reasoning: COVID and the Back to School Debate (abstract) Discussant: John Connaughton |
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 4A: Economic Development Incentives and Mobile Capital
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 10:30 | Incentives, Agglomeration and the Location of Greenfield Foreign Investment (abstract) PRESENTER: Doug Woodward Discussant: Oudom Hean |
| 11:00 | The Effects of Offshoring on Local Productivity and Capital Investment: Evidence from U.S. Counties (abstract) PRESENTER: Oudom Hean Discussant: Cynthia Rogers |
| 11:30 | Economic Development Program Spending in the US: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? (abstract) PRESENTER: Cynthia Rogers Discussant: Doug Woodward |
10:30-12:00 Session 4B: Air Pollution
Chair:
Location: Bonnell
| 10:30 | Identifying the atmospheric and economic key drivers of global air pollution change: a combined SDA approach (abstract) Discussant: Dominique Bouf |
| 11:00 | Newman and Kenworthy curve – Does culture matter? (abstract) Discussant: Sandy Dall'Erba |
10:30-12:00 Session 4C: BEA Special Session
Chair:
Location: Bickler
| 10:30 | Consumption Zones (abstract) PRESENTER: Mahsa Gholizadeh |
| 11:00 | For What It’s Worth: Measuring Land Value in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Gary Cornwall |
| 11:30 | Regional Research at BEA: Improvements, New Projects, and Looking Forward (abstract) |
12:00-14:00 Awards Luncheon and Fellows Address
John Connaughton Fellows Address: "A Personal View of Five Decades of Recessions"
Location: The SideYARD
14:00-16:00 Session 5A: Heterogeneity and Local Public Finance
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 14:00 | Spatially Varying Relationships between US County Operating Expenditure and its Determinants: An application of Bivariate Penalized Spline Estimation with Triangulation (abstract) PRESENTER: Yong Chen Discussant: Dayton Lambert |
| 14:30 | Tax Incidence on Pasture and Cropland Rental Rates (abstract) PRESENTER: Dayton Lambert Discussant: Susane Leguizamon |
| 15:00 | Differentials in the marriage tax experienced by Black households over time and region (abstract) PRESENTER: Susane Leguizamon Discussant: Yong Chen |
14:00-16:00 Session 5B: Autonomous and Shared Transportation
Chair:
Discussants:
Location: Bonnell
| 14:00 | Self-Driving Vehicles’ Impacts on Americans’ Long-Distance Travel Choices (abstract) PRESENTER: Priyanka Paithankar |
| 14:30 | Shared Autonomous Vehicle Fleets to Serve Chicago's Public Transit (abstract) PRESENTER: Yantao Huang |
| 15:00 | Sensitivity of charging and service trips of shared fully-automated electric vehicle fleets in a large-scale model. (abstract) PRESENTER: Kara Kockelman |
| 15:30 | Shared Autonomous Vehicle Parking for Idling and Repositioning (abstract) PRESENTER: Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi |
14:00-16:00 Session 5C: Advancing a More Inclusive Austin
A discussion on how Austin is addressing the challenges of affordability, workforce development, and inclusive economic development
- Steven Pedigo, Professor of Practice/ Director of LBJ Urban Lab, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT-Austin [Moderator]
- Suchi Gururaj, Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement and Economic Development, UT-Austin
- Tamara Atkinson, CEO, Workforce Solutions
- Vanessa Fuentes, City Council Member, City of Austin
- David Steinwedell, CEO, Affordable Central Texas
Chair:
Location: Bickler
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 6A: Housing
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 16:30 | Housing prices and strikes: a hedonic price model to advertisement data. (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez Discussant: Luyi Han |
| 17:00 | Shortages and Surpluses of Building Contractors – Evidence from the US Counties (abstract) PRESENTER: Luyi Han Discussant: Peter Han |
| 17:30 | Rural Definitions and HUD Programs (abstract) Discussant: Juan Tomas Sayago |
16:30-18:00 Session 6B: Rural Health
Organizer: Steve Deller, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chair:
Location: Bonnell
| 16:30 | Can Changes in Community Characteristics Help Predict Rural Hospital Closures? (abstract) PRESENTER: Claudia Rhoades Discussant: Steven Deller |
| 17:00 | A Preliminary Analysis of Rural Pharmacies (abstract) PRESENTER: Steven Deller Discussant: Alison Davis |
| 17:30 | Economic Implications of Hospital Closures on Obstetric Care (abstract) PRESENTER: Alison Davis Discussant: Claudia Rhoades |
16:30-18:00 Session 6C: Publishing in Regional Science
Have you ever wondered what elements cause Editors to consider a paper for peer review and publication in regional science journals? Are you struggling with how to respond referee reports and editor comments? Please join Tammy Leonard, Mark Partridge, and John Winters for a discussion on successfully publishing in regional science. Together, they represent the current or former Editors of the Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, and Review of Regional Studies as well as over 200 peer-reviewed scholarly publications.
Chair:
Location: Bickler
18:30-20:30 Reception
Location: The SideYARD
Saturday, April 9th
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08:00-10:00 Session 7A: Education and Human Capital
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 08:00 | Higher Education: The Impact of Recreational Marijuana on College Applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Christopher Blake Discussant: Michael Betz |
| 08:30 | Human capital migration and development in oil and gas regions (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael Betz Discussant: Rui Du |
| 09:00 | Where Do College Graduates Move? Later-Life Location Choice, Regional Economic Development, and Individual Well-Being (abstract) PRESENTER: Rui Du Discussant: Benjamin Blemmings |
| 09:30 | How White-Supremacist Terrorism Affects GPA, Test Scores, College Choice, and Political Orientation (abstract) Discussant: Christopher Blake |
08:00-10:00 Session 7B: The Knowledge and Creative Economy
Chair:
Location: Bonnell
| 08:00 | Regional Variation in the Willingness to Pay for Broadband (abstract) PRESENTER: Dave Shideler Discussant: Amit Batabyal |
| 08:30 | Tax Policy and Interregional Competition for Mobile Venture Capital by the Creative Class (abstract) PRESENTER: Amit Batabyal Discussant: Yao-Yu Chih |
| 09:00 | Computerization and Unincorporated Entrepreneurship in the US (abstract) Discussant: Neil Reid |
| 09:30 | Craft Brewing, Neolocalism, and The Emergence of Local Hop Production (abstract) Discussant: Dave Shideler |
08:00-10:00 Session 7C: Input-Output Modelling
Chair:
Location: Bickler
| 08:00 | Revisiting the Assumptions and Implications of Redefinitions for Input-Output Requirements Matrices and Economic Impact Analyses (abstract) PRESENTER: Mengming Li Discussant: Caroline Welter |
| 08:30 | Are the Benefits of Sectoral Detail in IO Accounts Offset by Detailed Data Error and Uncertainty? A Simulation Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Caroline Welter Discussant: J. Matthew Fannin |
| 09:00 | Structural changes in the Brazilian economy: impacts on the labor force, industrial production and value added (abstract) PRESENTER: Caroline Welter Discussant: Christa Court |
| 09:30 | Optimizing Regional Information for Measuring the Economic Contribution of Alligators to the Louisiana Economy (abstract) PRESENTER: J. Matthew Fannin Discussant: Mengming Li |
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 8A: Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity
Chair:
Location: Barton
| 10:30 | Spatial Income Inequality in the United States (abstract) Discussant: Juan Carlos Lopez |
| 11:00 | Inter- and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Carlos Lopez Discussant: Mark Partridge |
| 11:30 | Religion and Regional Economic Development: Evidence from 19th Century Prussia (abstract) PRESENTER: Mark Partridge Discussant: Francisco Castellanos-Sosa |
10:30-12:00 Session 8B: Causes and Consequences of Pollution
Chair:
Location: Bonnell
| 10:30 | Instrumental Variable Network Difference-in-Differences (IV-NDID) estimator: model and application (abstract) Discussant: John Halstead |
| 11:00 | Households’ Willingness To Pay To Avoid Risk And Uncertainty From PFAS In Drinking Water (abstract) PRESENTER: John Halstead Discussant: Bijeta Bijen Saha |
| 11:30 | IMPACTS OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL ON THE COMMERCIAL FISHING SUPPLY CHAIN OF THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO (abstract) PRESENTER: Bijeta Bijen Saha Discussant: Sandy Dall'Erba |
10:30-12:00 Session 8C: Health and Well-being
Chair:
Location: Bickler
| 10:30 | Factors influencing the difference between American male and female life expectancy (abstract) PRESENTER: Mckenzie Carvalho Discussant: Elham Erfanian |
| 11:00 | Recovery and Treatment Facilities Databases Drawn from the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) (abstract) PRESENTER: Elham Erfanian Discussant: Amit Batabyal |
| 11:30 | City and Regional Demand for Vaccines Whose Supply Arises from Competition in a Bertrand Duopoly (abstract) PRESENTER: Amit Batabyal Discussant: Mckenzie Carvalho |
12:00-14:00 Presidential Luncheon and SRSA Business Meeting
Presidential Address, John Winters, "No Place Like Home: Place-Based Attachment in Regional Science"
Location: The SideYARD