PROGRAM
Days: Thursday, April 4th Friday, April 5th Saturday, April 6th
Thursday, April 4th
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12:00-17:00 Registration
Registration
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
Chair:
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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07:45-12:00 Registration
Registration
08:00-09:45 Session 3A: Increasing Public Use and Facilitating Access to Federal Innovation Data
Chair:
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) PRESENTER: Jorge Cisneros Paz 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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
Location: Rosslyn I
08:00 | Do “Banking Deserts” Even Exist? Examining Access to Brick-and-Mortar Financial Institutions in the Continental United States (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrew Van Leuven 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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: Michael Lotspeich-Yadao |
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) PRESENTER: Michael Lotspeich-Yadao Discussant: Christopher Fowler |
10:15-12:00 Session 4A: Economic Development Incentives, impacts, and assessments
Chair:
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
Chair:
Discussant:
Location: Lee
10:15 | Identifying Attributes of an Exhaustive Regional Classification System in 2030 (abstract) PRESENTER: J. Matthew Fannin |
10:15-12:00 Session 4C: Housing Prices
Chair:
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
Chair:
Location: Rosslyn I
10:15 | Institutions, Resource Abundance and Inequality in the U.S. (abstract) PRESENTER: Nyakundi Michieka Discussant: Amanda Weinstein |
10:42 | Has the Southeast U.S. Economy lost its Mojo (abstract) PRESENTER: John Connaughton Discussant: Daniela Luminita Constantin |
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) PRESENTER: Federico Corredor |
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
Chair:
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) Discussant: J Sebastian Leguizamon |
15:19 | Buffer-Stock Saving in State Pension Funds (abstract) PRESENTER: J Sebastian Leguizamon Discussant: Joao Ferreira |
14:00-15:45 Session 5E: Energy Development and Place
Chair:
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
Chair:
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) PRESENTER: Christopher Blake Discussant: Andrew Crawley |
16:15-18:00 Session 6A: NE2249: Rural Livability and Quality of Life
Chair:
Discussants:
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) PRESENTER: Andrew Van Leuven |
16:15-18:00 Session 6B: Regional Vulnerability
Chair:
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
Chair:
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 |
16:15-18:00 Session 6E: Informational Session: The Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II)
Chair:
Location: Rosslyn II
16:15 | The Regional Input-Output Modeling System (abstract) |
16:15-18:00 Session 6F: Panel Session: Cooperating with Journalists for Application of Regional Science Scholarship
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Location: Jefferson
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) |
18:30-20:30 Reception
Location: Sky View
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) PRESENTER: Christian Awuku-Budu |
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) PRESENTER: James Matthew Fannin 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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
Location: Jackson
10:15 | 21st Century Million Dollar Facilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Carlianne Patrick 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
Chair:
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
Chair:
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
Chair:
Location: Rosslyn II
10:15 | Moving to STEM: What do institutions gain from reclassification of economics programs? (abstract) Discussant: Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez |
10:50 | Marginalization of labor force with poor family health: insights from the US labor force (abstract) PRESENTER: Nadeeka Weerasekara Discussant: Shengrong Hu |
11:25 | EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE: MINORITIES AND SEGREGATE GROUP PERSPECTIVES (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez Discussant: Nadeeka Weerasekara |
10:15-12:00 Session 9E: Agriculture and Land Use
Chair:
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 |