Oklahoma Economic Forecast (abstract)

West Virginia Economic Forecast (abstract)

South Carolina Economic Forecast (abstract)

Virginia Economic Forecast (abstract)

Housing Livability Index for U.S. Counties: A Comparative Analysis of 2013 and 2023 (Discussant: Tessa Conroy) (abstract)

Rural Critical Institutions: A New Longitudinal Dataset for Evaluating Rural Livability (Discussant: Michael Hicks) (abstract)

Quality of Life Differences between Metro and Rural America (Discussant: Zheng Tian) (abstract)

Catching Up or Falling Behind? The Pace of Income Convergence in Rural and Urban America (Discussant: Christopher Blake) (abstract)

Sector-County Outlier Relative Employer (SCORE) Establishments and Inequality (Discussant: Austin Sanders) (abstract)

Rural Agglomeration: Using a county-level measure of population distribution to capture own-market effects on rural establishment demand thresholds (Discussant: Jason Brown) (abstract)

Exploring the Interface between Community Vitality and Resilience to Natural Hazards (Discussant: Nathan Palardy) (abstract)

Community Pathways to Health Resilience: A Pathways Approach (Discussant: Tessa Conroy) (abstract)

Regional Food Dynamics: Exploring the Business Environment at the Intersection of Economic, Cultural and Political Capitals (Discussant: Sarah Low) (abstract)

Skill-based Occupational Connectivity and Local Labor Market Development (Discussant: Munkaila Lambongang) (abstract)

Impacts of Hydrogen Production Investments in the Appalachian Region (Discussant: Vinicius Cicero) (abstract)

Resource boom, export composition, concentration, and sophistication: evidence from Brazilian local economies (Discussant: Xiaoyin Li) (abstract)

Impact of Sporting Events on Traffic Safety (Discussant: Michael Cary) (abstract)

Exposure to Particulate Matter Obstructs Police Performance During Traffic Stops (Discussant: Ahsan Senan) (abstract)

Who Responds to Which Safety Message: Designing Safety Communications for Forestry Workers with Different Injury Histories (Discussant: Daniel Centuriao) (abstract)

Estimating interstate trade flows for the United States (Discussant: Ferreira João) (abstract)

Measuring trade decoupling and diversion in Russia – A Structural Decomposition Analysis (Discussant: Minsu Kim) (abstract)

Chinese import shocks and US rural development (Discussant: Kyle Hood) (abstract)

Uneven Ground: Public Funding Gaps Between Rural and Nonrural America (Discussant: McKenzie Boyce) (abstract)

The Economic Impact of Cancer in West Virginia (Discussant: Christa Court) (abstract)

Closing the Digital Divide: New Insights on U.S. Broadband Availability (Discussant: Michael Hicks) (abstract)

The Impact of Hurricane Ian on the Unemployment Rate: Evidence from Lee County, FL (Discussant: Yong Chen) (abstract)

EFFECTS OF THE PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM ON BUSINESS PAYMENT PERFORMANCE (Discussant: Gustavo Barboza) (abstract)

The Shapes of Knowledge Spillovers: The ACKS Model (Discussant: Glen Martin) (abstract)

HCV incidence: does location matter? Evidence of Ohio counties (Discussant: Caroline Welter) (abstract)

The Impact of SSA Field Office Closures on Disability Program Participation (Discussant: Sarah Drain) (abstract)

Healthcare Delivery and the Allocation of Clinical Labor (Discussant: Nancy Haskell) (abstract)

The Impact of Infrastructure Obligations on Municipalities (Discussant: Elham Erfanian) (abstract)

You Get What You Measure: The Missing Sustainability Metrics in U.S. Regional Economic Development (Discussant: Timothy Slaper) (abstract)

The Company You Keep: Surprising revelations from peer regions (Discussant: Elizabeth Dobis) (abstract)

Exploring the New Integrated Metropolitan-to-Frontier Area Codes (IMFAC) (Discussant: Amit Batabyal) (abstract)

Competition between the Creative Class and a Regional Government: A Firm Level Analysis (Discussant: Bill Provaznik) (abstract)

Two Forms of Taxation, Majority Voting, and Water Pollution Cleanup in the Ganges (Discussant: Mustahsin Aziz) (abstract)

Upstream Agriculture and Downstream Drinking Water Compliance (Discussant: Jia Wang) (abstract)

Natural resources development and homeownership: evidence from the fracking boom and bust (Discussant: Amit Batabyal) (abstract)

Institutional Persistence and Economic Development Across America's Sundown Towns (Discussant: Michael Hicks) (abstract)

The Long Tail of Hate: The KKK in Indiana (Discussant: Lindsey Elliott) (abstract)

Examining the impact of the minority threat hypothesis on Right to Work laws (Discussant: Olivia Gonzalez) (abstract)

Public Debt and Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Mediating Roles of Governance and Human Development. (Discussant: Saani Rawat) (abstract)

Does Urban Local Governance Matter? Evidence from India (Discussant: Per Fredriksson) (abstract)

Ancestral Irrigation and Culture: Women’s Rights (Discussant: Mulugeta Kahsai) (abstract)

Fiscal Decentralization and the Geography of Housing Assistance (Discussant: Mckenzie Boyce) (abstract)

Borrowing Amenities: Assessing the Value of Spatially Shared Natural Amenities on Local Quality of Life (Discussant: Sarah Low) (abstract)

Rural Health Disadvantages in the U.S.: The role of county characteristics on individuals’ biomarkers (Discussant: Trinity Foster) (abstract)

The Impact of a KYNEP Social Marketing Campaign on Nonmetropolitan Resident Health (Discussant: Elizabeth Dobis) (abstract)

County Outlier Establishments and Alternative Inequality Measures: Comparative Results

From Soil to Spoil: The Social and Economic Costs of Disconnection from Food Production

Analyzing Patterns of Agricultural Land Uses Protected by a Statewide Program in Florida

Data Center Location and Expansion: The Role of State Incentives (Discussant: Carlianne Patrick) (abstract)

Investing in Neighborhoods: Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credits (Discussant: Cynthia Rogers) (abstract)

How much does OKC’s Tax Increment Financing divert from Public Schools? (Discussant: Terry Rephann) (abstract)

Banking Consolidation and Innovation in the United States (Discussant: Lindsey Elliott) (abstract)

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Understanding the Impact of Rural Higher Education Institutions on Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (Discussant: Sara Katanchian) (abstract)

The Geography of Consumption: Local Responses to National Shocks (Discussant: Oudom Hean) (abstract)

The New Natural Amenities Scale: Conceptual and Empirical Advancements in Measuring Rural Natural Amenities in the United States (Discussant: Phil Watson) (abstract)

Valuing Rural Natural Amenities (Discussant: Elizabeth Dobis) (abstract)

Long-distance trails and rural economic development (Discussant: David McGranahan) (abstract)

Reindustrialization Meets Rural Reality: The Limits of FDI-Led Development (Discussant: Shengrong Hu) (abstract)

Local Economic Impacts of Food Manufacturing Plant Closures in the Midwest (Discussant: Frank Seo) (abstract)

A Practical Framework for Forecasting Population Impacts of Industrial Projects in Small Rural Counties (Discussant: Kara Jones) (abstract)

Title: Understanding land use land cover change and the implications on the food,-energy-water (FEW) nexus (Discussant: Sachin Sisodiya) (abstract)

Spatial Analysis of Minimum Qualifying Yield and Productivity: Evidence from India's Legal Opium Farming (Discussant: Amit Batabyal) (abstract)

An Ecological-Economic Approach to Air Pollution Regulation in New Delhi, India (Discussant: Habeeb Oyewo) (abstract)

Economic valuation of the impacts of compound water quality hazards: The case of the concurrent harmful algal bloom (HAB) events of 2018 in Southwest Florida (Discussant: Ahsan Senan) (abstract)

A General-Equilibrium Decomposition of Oregon Forestry Activity Across Counties (Discussant: Nyakundi Michieka) (abstract)

Rising Energy Costs and Income Inequality in the U.S. (Discussant: Roberto Koeneke) (abstract)

Education Deserts, Broadband Access, and Workforce Credential Preferences (Discussant: Yuan Zhuang) (abstract)

Does the Sector of Employment Affect Migration Intentions? New Evidence from RRDC’s Baseline Survey 2024 (Discussant: Laura Pacheco de Souza) (abstract)

DO AGING MICROREGIONS SAVE MORE? A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF SAVINGS BEHAVIOR IN BRAZIL (Discussant: Nathan Kemper) (abstract)

Traditional Religion and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China (Discussant: Amanda Weinstein) (abstract)

Measuring the Pulse of Rural Entrepreneurship: Inside the Rural Entrepreneurship Index (Discussant: William Provaznik) (abstract)

The External Ownership Index: Measuring Local Control of Capital in Regional Economies (Discussant: Per Fredriksson) (abstract)