SRSA2024: 2024 MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, April 4th Friday, April 5th Saturday, April 6th

Thursday, April 4th

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14:30-16:15 NE2249 Multistate Hatch Meeting - Invitation Only

NE2249 Multistate Hatch Meeting - Invitation Only

Location: Jefferson
14:30-16:30 Session 1A: State Economic Forecasts

State Economic Forecast Session

Location: Lee
14:30
Oklahoma Economic Forecast (abstract)
15:00
The Evolving West Virginia Economy Going Forward (abstract)
15:30
South Carolina Economic Forecast (abstract)
16:00
North Carolina Economic Forecast (abstract)
14:30-16:15 Session 1B: Regional Research at BEA
Chair:
Location: Jackson
14:30
When the Price is Right: Home Value Misperception and Measurement of Wealth Disparities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Scott Wentland
Discussant: Raven Molloy
14:57
Improved Measures of Research and Development Performance by State (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dirk van Duym
Discussant: Timothy Wojan
15:23
Experimental Capital Stock by State Statistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gonca Senel
Discussant: Jason Brown
15:49
Expanding the Frontier of Economic Statistics Using Big Data: A Case Study of Regional Employment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kyle Hood
Discussant: Santiago Pinto
18:30-21:00 Session 2: SRSA Executive Council Meeting - Invitation Only

SRSA Executive Council Meeting - Invitation Only

Location: Jefferson
Friday, April 5th

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08:00-09:45 Session 3A: Increasing Public Use and Facilitating Access to Federal Innovation Data
Location: Jefferson
08:00
Can the Annual Business Survey Borrow Strength from the Economic Census? The Feasibility of Small Area Innovation Rate Estimation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Timothy Wojan
Discussant: Dayton Lambert
08:35
Capturing the Annual Business Survey in Synthetic Microdata: Construction and Use Cases of a Public Use File (abstract)
Discussant: Luyi Han
09:10
Getting Access to Confidential Firm-Level Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and R&D Data: Navigating the Standard Application Process (abstract)
Discussant: Zheng Tian
08:00-09:45 Session 3B: Regional Science and Climate Change - 1
Location: Lee
08:00
Tropical cyclone day-off orders, warnings, and avoidance behavior (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pei-Jyun Lu
Discussant: Sandy Dall'Erba
08:35
Statistical Downscaling of Domestic Trade Flows in Grains (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sandy Dall'Erba
Discussant: Hyungsun Yim
09:10
Impact of Extreme Weather Events on the U.S. Domestic Supply Chain of Food Manufacturing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hyungsun Yim
Discussant: Pei-Jyun Lu
08:00-09:45 Session 3C: Technology and Growth
Location: Madison
08:00
Artificial Intelligence Based Technologies and Economic Growth in a Creative Region (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amit Batabyal
Discussant: Andrew Crawley
08:35
How has AI impacted the manufacturing sector in the US? Insights from a new primary Investigation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrew Crawley
Discussant: Michael Cary
09:10
Time Zones, Productivity, and Discontinuities in the Spatial Equilibrium (abstract)
Discussant: Amit Batabyal
08:00-09:45 Session 3D: Banking and Finance
Location: Rosslyn I
08:00
Do “Banking Deserts” Even Exist? Examining Access to Brick-and-Mortar Financial Institutions in the Continental United States (abstract)
Discussant: Beau Sauley
08:35
Gettin SIFI with it: How Dodd-Frank regulations altered mortgage lending from America’s largest banks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Beau Sauley
Discussant: Chen Xu
09:10
Financial Literacy, Risk Aversion, and Entrepreneur in China (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chen Xu
Discussant: Andrew Van Leuven
08:00-09:45 Session 3E: Health
Location: Rosslyn II
08:00
Regional Inequalities in Health in Colombia (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luis Galvis
Discussant: Elizabeth Dobis
08:27
Changes in Rural Health Care Access, 2000-18 (abstract)
Discussant: Caroline Welter
08:53
Maternal Responses to the Zika Epidemic: Immunization and Beyond (abstract)
Discussant: Ben Blemings
09:19
Violence Displacement from Sea to Land: Evidence from Wind-Induced Somalian Piracy Reductions (abstract)
Discussant: Luis Galvis
08:00-09:45 Session 3F: Examples of Exhaustive Regional Classification Systems
Location: Jackson
08:00
Updates to the Rural-Urban Continuum Codes (RUCC) and Urban Influence Codes (UIC) by the USDA Economic Research Service (abstract)
PRESENTER: Austin Sanders
Discussant: Santiago Pinto
08:27
Commuting Patterns and Economic Activity (abstract)
Discussant: Austin Sanders
08:53
New Commuting Zone delineation for the U.S. based on 2020 data (abstract)
09:19
Using machine learning in the measurement of neighborhood effects: A research note on hierarchical clustering and commuting zones at the census tract level (abstract)
Discussant: Christopher Fowler
10:15-12:00 Session 4A: Economic Development Incentives, impacts, and assessments
Location: Jackson
10:15
How Economic Development Incentives affect Racial and Gender Segregation of Employment and Wages (abstract)
PRESENTER: Heather Stephens
Discussant: Cynthia Rogers
10:42
Does Using Tax Increment Finance for Economic Development Unravel School Finance Equalization in Oklahoma? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Stephen Ellis
Discussant: Steven Deller
11:08
Attracting Remote Workers: Overview of Programs in the US (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cynthia Rogers
Discussant: Andrew Van Leuven
11:34
Did Tulsa's Remote Worker Incentive Program Spur Migration? (abstract)
Discussant: Michael Hicks
10:15-12:00 Session 4B: Panel Session: Identifying Attributes of an Exhaustive Regional Classification System in 2030

Identifying Attributes of an Exhaustive Regional Classification System in 2030

Discussant:
Location: Lee
10:15
Identifying Attributes of an Exhaustive Regional Classification System in 2030 (abstract)
10:15-12:00 Session 4C: Housing Prices
Location: Madison
10:15
The Neighborhood Brand Effect on Housing Prices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Douglas Woodward
Discussant: Mouhcine Guettabi
10:50
Elderly migration and housing prices (abstract)
Discussant: Lei Zhang
11:25
The Avian Influence: Examining the Impact of Bird Population on House Prices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lei Zhang
Discussant: Joseph Von Nessen
10:15-12:00 Session 4D: Economic Growth & Inequality
Location: Rosslyn I
10:15
Institutions, Resource Abundance and Inequality in the U.S. (abstract)
Discussant: Amanda Weinstein
10:42
Has the Southeast U.S. Economy lost its Mojo (abstract)
PRESENTER: John Connaughton
11:08
Swimming Upstream on the Path to Thriving: Exploring Deeply Disadvantaged Rural Areas that are Outperforming Expectations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amanda Weinstein
Discussant: Nyakundi Michieka
11:34
TERRITORIAL INEQUALITIES AND THE POVERTY POCKETS IN THE EU’s CAPITAL REGIONS (abstract)
Discussant: John Connaughton
14:00-15:45 Session 5A: Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Location: Jackson
14:00
Student Loans and the Impact on Entrepreneurship (abstract)
PRESENTER: Brandon Genetin
Discussant: Amanda Weinstein
14:35
Quality of Life and Business Startups (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amanda Weinstein
Discussant: Timothy Wojan
15:10
The economic geography of nontechnological innovation: Design orientation across the US settlement hierarchy (abstract)
Discussant: Brandon Genetin
14:00-15:45 Session 5B: Regional Science and Climate Change - 2
Location: Lee
14:00
Uncovering the Key Transportation Links in the U.S. Domestic Food Supply Chain Through Disruption Simulations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taejun Mo
Discussant: Stacia Harper
14:35
“Climate, Urban Heat, COVID19: The Distribution of Burden” (abstract)
Discussant: Taejun Mo
14:00-15:45 Session 5C: Outreach in Regional Science
Location: Madison
14:00
Leveraging the Cooperative Extension System and communications experts to ensure that regional science research useful, usable, and policy-relevant (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christa Court
14:27
Do Tax Incentives Work? Evidence from Georgia’s Film Tax Credit (abstract)
14:53
Integrated Partnerships to Enhance Rural Tourism Economies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Eades
15:19
Rural Areas Lag Behind in Work-from-Home Rates (abstract)
14:00-15:45 Session 5D: Economic Development and Growth
Location: Rosslyn I
14:00
Designing a new model to assess the local economic impacts of large-scale solar development: a state-of-the-art of recent studies across the U.S. and the need for best practices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Joao Ferreira
Discussant: Brian Sloboda
14:27
The External Debt and Its Impact on Economic Growth and Investment in ECOWAS Countries Using Spatial Methods (abstract)
PRESENTER: Brian Sloboda
Discussant: Alison Davis
14:53
Measuring the Importance of Hospitals to Local Economic Development (abstract)
15:19
Buffer-Stock Saving in State Pension Funds (abstract)
Discussant: Joao Ferreira
14:00-15:45 Session 5E: Energy Development and Place
Location: Rosslyn II
14:00
Landowner Needs As it Relates to Utility-Scale Solar Development (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paul Goeringer
Discussant: Elham Erfanian
14:35
Energy Burden: Examining Rural and Urban Disparities in the U.S. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ayoung Kim
Discussant: Paul Goeringer
15:10
Placement of Ohio dislocated coal-related occupations (abstract)
Discussant: Ayoung Kim
14:00-15:45 Session 5F: Labor Markets
Location: Jefferson
14:00
Immigration Restrictions and Low-Skilled Labor Wages: Evidence from the 1920s (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elior Cohen
Discussant: Christopher Blake
14:35
A Reinvestigation of Biotechnology and Regional Labor Markets: Have industrial shifts altered labor demand? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrew Crawley
Discussant: Elior Cohen
15:10
Do Superstar Employers depress labor shares? Evidence from Georgia, Southern States, and the United States (abstract)
Discussant: Andrew Crawley
16:15-18:00 Session 6A: NE2249: Rural Livability and Quality of Life
Location: Jackson
16:15
The Drivers of Quality of Life Under Modeling Uncertainty (abstract)
PRESENTER: Steven Deller
16:50
Earnings, Rent and Unemployment: Does the Introduction of Unemployment Alter Roback-Type Measures of Quality of Life (abstract)
PRESENTER: Steven Deller
17:25
Neighborhood Quality of Life and the Role of the ’Third Place’ (abstract)
16:15-18:00 Session 6B: Regional Vulnerability
Location: Lee
16:15
A Research Note on Community Resilience Estimates: New U.S. Census Bureau Data with an Application to Excess Deaths from COVID-19 (abstract)
PRESENTER: Craig Carpenter
Discussant: David McGranahan
16:50
Regional Vulnerability Index to Natural Hazards (abstract)
PRESENTER: Euijun Kim
Discussant: Craig Carpenter
17:25
County child poverty in 1969 and its adult mortality legacy 40 years later (abstract)
PRESENTER: David McGranahan
Discussant: Euijun Kim
16:15-18:00 Session 6C: Regional Modeling
Location: Madison
16:15
Heterogeneous Districts, Interests, and Trade Policy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Santiago Pinto
Discussant: Hiroyuki Hashimoto
16:50
Suboptimality and Vulnerability of Hospital Network Locations in the Southeastern US (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mark Burkey
Discussant: Tohru Naito
17:25
Do childless households in urban areas accelerate urban population concentration? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tohru Naito
Discussant: Mark Burkey
16:15-18:00 Session 6D: Transportation
Chair:
Location: Rosslyn I
16:15
Does Voting Affect the Provision of Bus Service? (abstract)
Discussant: Daniel Centuriao
16:50
The effects of NYC Automated Speed Enforcement Program in accidents, injuries and fatalities. (abstract)
Discussant: Taejun Mo
17:25
The Impact of Driverless Trucks on National and State-level Trade (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taejun Mo
Discussant: Xavier Harmony
18:10-19:00 Session 7: Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Organized by Sebastian Leguizamon and Heather Stephens
Location: Sky View
18:10
The Effects of a New Factory on Housing Prices in Jefferson County, West Virginia (abstract)
18:19
Regional variation in the acceptance of insurance by mental health professionals. Evidence from MEPS (abstract)
18:28
Greening the Church: The Contribution of Faith-Owned Greenspace towards Urban Equity in Baltimore City (abstract)
18:37
Identifying Potential Parcels for Solar Farm Development in Central Virginia (abstract)
18:46
What are the costs and benefits from carbon sequestration to livestock producers in Appalachia? (abstract)
Saturday, April 6th

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08:00-09:45 Session 8A: Expanding and Improving BEA’s Regional Statistics through Research
Chair:
Location: Jackson
08:00
Experimental quarterly PCE by state statistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mahsa Gholizadeh
08:27
Towards Private Fixed Investment by State Statistics: Using Census Microdata to Allocate Enterprise-Level Equipment Expenditures (abstract)
08:53
Federal Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment Statistics by State (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kun Li
09:19
Developing State and Local Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment by State Statistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chris Mbu
08:00-09:45 Session 8B: Emissions and Pollution
Chair:
Location: Lee
08:00
Optimizing CO2 Emission Reduction Strategies: Unveiling Sectoral Costs (abstract)
Discussant: Amit Batabyal
08:35
State Variation in Long-Term CO2 Emission Reductions: Event-Study and Spatial SUR Analyses on the Clean Air Act and the Clean Power Plan (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zheng Tian
Discussant: J. Matthew Fannin
09:10
Decentralized vs. Centralized Water Pollution Cleanup in the Ganges in a Model with Three Cities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Amit Batabyal
Discussant: Zheng Tian
08:00-09:45 Session 8C: Labor Markets - 2
Location: Rosslyn II
08:00
Effect of the social interactions and digital appropriation in the individual labor participation in a developing country (abstract)
Discussant: David Nason
08:35
From School to Work: How Alumni Networks on LinkedIn Shape PhD Journeys (abstract)
Discussant: Jhon James Mora
09:10
Evaluating the Impact of Changes in Skill Demand on Job Separations, Hiring Behavior, and Wage Dynamics (abstract)
Discussant: Haoqian Zou
08:00-09:45 Session 8D: Topics in Regional Science
Location: Rosslyn I
08:00
Historiographic Foundations and Future Directions: A Thought Experiment in Regional Science (abstract)
Discussant: Nathan Palardy
08:30
A Solution to the OMB recognized Geographic Need: “a territorially exhaustive classification that covers all of the United States and Puerto Rico,” State Determined Sub-State Districts (abstract)
Discussant: Elizabeth Redmond
09:00
Charting the Path to Better Local Leadership: A Case Study Exploring Factors Influencing Florida County Commissioners’ Engagement with Extension-based Leadership Education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nathan Palardy
Discussant: Thomas Christoffel
08:00-09:45 Session 8E: Property Values and Taxation
Location: Jefferson
08:00
Impacts of PFAS Contamination on Residential Properties in New Hampshire (abstract)
PRESENTER: John Halstead
Discussant: Federico Corredor
08:35
The Impact of Weather on Agricultural Profit and Land Value: Evidence from 1078 Estimates (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hyungsun Yim
Discussant: John Halstead
09:10
Property Taxes and the SALT Deduction Cap: Local Governments' Responses to Changes in Federal Provisions (abstract)
Discussant: Hyungsun Yim
10:15-12:00 Session 9A: The Economic Impact of Manufacturing Plants
Location: Jackson
10:15
21st Century Million Dollar Facilities (abstract)
Discussant: Thomas Klier
10:50
The emerging geography of electric vehicle production in North America: Revolution or evolution? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thomas Klier
Discussant: Adam Scavette
11:25
Aerospace Place-Based Policy: The Impact of Boeing on South Carolina’s Aerospace Industry (abstract)
Discussant: Carlianne Patrick
10:15-12:00 Session 9B: Location Choice and Innovation
Location: Jefferson
10:15
What Increases the Urban-Rural Gap in Firm Entry Rate? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Younjun Kim
Discussant: Dayton Lambert
10:50
Factors Affecting Female and Minority Entrepreneurship in Rural Regions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiaoyin Li
Discussant: Steven Deller
11:25
Creative Destruction and the Reallocation of Capital in Rural and Urban Areas (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jason Brown
Discussant: Younjun Kim
10:15-12:00 Session 9C: Regional Impacts of Resource Use
Location: Lee
10:15
Regional Economic Impact of Deep-Sea Fishing Tournaments around the Gulf of Mexico (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ruixin Jia
Discussant: Christa Court
10:50
Estimating the Potential Economic Impacts of Land Use and Environmental Changes in the Suwannee River Basin (abstract)
PRESENTER: Roberto Koeneke
Discussant: Ruixin Jia
10:15-12:00 Session 9D: Labor Markets - 3
Location: Rosslyn II
10:15
Moving to STEM: What do institutions gain from reclassification of economics programs? (abstract)
10:50
Marginalization of labor force with poor family health: insights from the US labor force (abstract)
Discussant: Shengrong Hu
11:25
EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE: MINORITIES AND SEGREGATE GROUP PERSPECTIVES (abstract)
10:15-12:00 Session 9E: Agriculture and Land Use
Location: Rosslyn I
10:15
What are the key supply chain linkages of USMCA’s agrifood sector and the drivers of its water use? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sandy Dallerba
Discussant: Devon Mills
10:50
Impact of Community Reinvestment Act on Farm Loans (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luyi Han
Discussant: Sandy Dall'Erba
11:25
Land Ruggedness and Fiber Internet Availability: Findings from the Southern United States (abstract)
Discussant: Luyi Han