Rural Economic Development: Alternatives in the New Competitive Environment

RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ALTERNATIVES IN THE NEW COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT

Publications

Barkley, David L., Mark S. Henry, and Mellie Warner. “Targeting Growth Opportunities for Lancaster County, 2002.” REDRL Research Report 10-2002-04. Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, October 2002, 101 pages.

Barkley, David L., M. S. Henry, and Mellie Warner. “The Community-Level Impacts of Economic Development: The Role of Local Labor Market Adjustments.” The Rural South: Preparing for Challenges of the 21st Century. Southern Rural Development Center, No. 24, September 2002, http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/barkley.pdf

Barkley, David L. and Mark S. Henry. “Targeting Industry Clusters for Regional Economic Development: An Overview of the REDRL Approach.” REDRL Research Report 05-2002-03. Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, May 2002, 9 pages.

Barkley, David L. and Mark S. Henry, and Mellie Warner. “Estimating the Community-Level Impacts of Attracting New Businesses: The Implications of Local Labor Market Adjustments”. REDRL Research Report 02-2002-01. Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, February 2002, 20 pages.

Braunworth, Jr., T. Welch, and R. Hathaway, eds. Special Report 1037. Corvallis: Oregon State University Extension Service. December 2002

Castle, Emery N. and Bruce A. Weber, “Policy and Place: Requirements of a Successful Place-Based Policy”, invited paper prepared for the Rural Policy Research Institute “Rural Matters” Symposium, Nebraska City, NE, October 17-18, 2002.

Corsi, A. and J. Findeis. 2000. True State Dependence and Heterogeneity in Off-farm Labour Participation. European Review of Agricultural Economics 27(2):127-151.

Deller, Steven C., Gould, Brian and Jones, Bruce. (forthcoming) “Agriculture and US Rural Economic Growth.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Deller, Steven C. and Lledo, Victor. “Local Taxes, Economic Growth and the Laffer Hypothesis.” National Tax Journal. (under 1st review).

Deller, Steven C. and Lledo, Victor. “Local Government Taxation, Spending and Economic Growth.” Regional Science and Urban Economics. (under 1st review).

Deller, Steven C. and Dissart, J.C. “The Economic Impact of Agricultural: Methods and Issues.” Agribusiness. (under 1st review).

Dickerson, John and Bruce A. Weber, “Taxes and Inequality in Oregon: How Taxes Change the Distribution of Income” Working Paper No. AREC 02-102, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, May 2002

Duncan, Greg J., Leslie A. Whitener and Bruce A. Weber, "Lessons Learned: Welfare Reform and Food Assistance in Rural America", in Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener, editors, Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform, Kalamazoo MI: W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002

Fawson, Chris and Jeremy Kidd. “Health Care in Crisis: The Plight of Rural Nevada Hospitals and Clinics.” Nevada Policy Research Institute Analysis, July 2002.

Feitshans, Ted and Mitch Renkow. 2002. “Farmland Preservation: Law and Economics.” NC State Economist (March).

Findeis, J., Jensen, L. and Q. Wang. 2000. Underemployment Prevalence and Transitions in the U.S. South. Special Issue of Southern Rural Sociology 16:122-144.

OECD (Findeis, J., J. Anton, C. Weiss, and K. Saito). 2001. Agricultural Policy Reform and Farm Employment. Paris: OECD. 55pp.

Findeis, J., M. Henry, T. Hirschl, W. Lewis, I. Ortega-Sanchez, E. Peine, and J. Zimmerman. 2001. Welfare Reform in Rural America: A Review of Current Research. RUPRI Policy Paper P2001-5. Rural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri. 85pp. (

Findeis, J. and L. Jensen. (1998) Welfare Reform in a Changing Policy Environment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(5): 1005-8.

Findeis, J. 2002. Hired Farm Labour Adjustments and Constraints. In: The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses. J. Findeis, A. Vandeman, J. Larson and J. Runyan (eds.). UK: CAB-International.

Fisher, Monica G. and Bruce A. Weber, The Importance of Place in Welfare Reform: Common Challenges for Central Cities and Remote-Rural Areas, Research Brief 1, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution, 11 pp., June 2002.

Fisher, Monica G. and Bruce A. Weber, The Importance of Place in Welfare Reform: Common Challenges for Central Cities and Remote-Rural Areas, A report prepared for the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and the Rural Policy Research Institute, 40 pp., June 2002.

Gabe, T.M. and D.S. Kraybill. 2002. The effects of state economic development incentives on employment growth of establishments. J. Reg. Sc. 42(4): 703-730.

Gabe, T. and D.S. Kraybill. 1998. Tax incentive requests and offers in a state economic development program. Rev. Reg. Stud. 28(3): 1-14.

Galli, Justin, Harris, Thomas R. and George W. Borden. “The Economic Impacts of Death Valley Tourism Expenditures on Nye County.” February 2002. UCED 2001/02-30.

Griesel, Janet L., John C. Leatherman, and Judith I. Stallmann. ”Kansas State and Local Government Spending: A Comparison with Other States for 1998-99.” Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University. Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. 2002. pp.18 http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/direct/financepubs/Spending.pdf

Griesel, Janet L., John C. Leatherman, and Judith I. Stallmann. “Kansas State and Local Government Revenues: A Comparison with Other States for 1998-99.” Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University. Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. 2002. pp. 21 http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/direct/financepubs/Revenue.pdf

Goetz, S. J. and Anil Rupasingha. 2002 (in press), High-Tech Industry Clustering: Implications for Rural Areas. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(5).

Goetz, S. J. and D. L. Debertin. 2001. Why Farmers Quit: A County-Level Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(4):1010-23.

Goetz, S. J., and D. Freshwater. 2001. State-Level Measures of Entrepreneurship and a Preliminary Measure of Entrepreneurial Climate. Economic Development Quarterly 15(1): 58-70.

Goetz, S. J., D. L. Debertin and A. Pagoulatos. 1998. Human Capital, Income, and Environmental Quality: A State-Level Analysis. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 28(2): 200-208.

Goetz, S. J. and P. Schirmer. 1998. Household Characteristics and the Use of Information Technology: Bivariate Probit Estimates. KY Jrnl. of Econ. & Business 17: 85-97.

Harris, Thomas R., Chang K. Seung, and Rangesan Narayanan. “Targeting Economic Development: An Application of Target MOTAD Procedures.” The Review of Regional Studies, 31(2001): 197-215. (Published, May 2002)

Harris, Thomas R., Jered McDonald, Richard Bartholett, Kathy Halbardier, and Brian Bonnefant. “An Analysis of Carson City Socio-Economic Trends, Labor Force, Economic Base, and Retail Trade.” May 2002, UCED 2002/03-02.

Harris, Thomas R., Tim Darden, Justin Galli, and Jered McDonald. “Industrial Targeting for Rural Western Nevada Development District.” July 2002, UCED 2002/03-08.

Harris, Thomas R. “Carson City Commercial Sector Leakage Study.” August 2002, UCED 2002/03-09.

Henry, Mark S. “Civic Community Approaches to Rural Development in the South: Comments.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 34(2):343-347.

Henry, Mark. S., David L. Barkley, and Michalann. G. Evatt. “The Contribution of the Coast to the South Carolina Economy.” REDRL Research Report 9-2002-01, Regional Economic Development Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, September 2002, 48 pages.

Henry, Mark S., L. Reinschmiedt, W. Lewis and D. Hudson. “Reducing Food Stamp and Welfare Caseloads in the South: Are Rural Areas Less Likely to Succeed than Urban Centers?” in Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform, eds. B. Weber, G. Duncan and L. Whitener. Pp. 113-146. Upjohn Institute Press, 2002.

Holland, Amanda. 2002. Investigating the Impact of Agricultural Land Preservation Programs in Maryland’s Metropolitan Fringe Counties. Senior Thesis, University of Delaware.

Irwin, E.G. 2002. The effects of open space on residential property values. Land Econ. 78(4): 465-481.

Irwin, E.G. and N.E. Bockstael. 2002. Interacting agents, spatial externalities, and the endogenous evolution of residential land use patterns. J. Econ. Geog. 2(1): 31-54.

Jaeger, W. and B. Weber, “Preface to the Economics Chapters." Chapter 10 in Water Allocation in the Klamath Reclamation Project, 2001: An Assessment of Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues with a Focus on the Upper Klamath Basin, W.S. Braunworth, Jr., T. Welch, and R. Hathaway, eds. Special Report 1037. Corvallis: Oregon State University Extension Service. December 2002.

James, Sara Beth. The Effect of Local Economic Development Policy on Employment Growth in Rural Counties in the Mid-Atlantic Region. MS Thesis, University of Delaware. 2002.

James, Sara Beth, Thomas W. Ilvento and Steven E. Hastings. “The Effect of Local Economic Development Policy on Employment Growth in Rural Counties in the Mid-Atlantic Region”. Food and Resource Economics, SP02-04, University of Delaware. 2002.

Jensen, L., J. Findeis and Q. Wang. 2000. Labor Supply and Underemployment in the Southern United States. Special Issue of Southern Rural Sociology 16:93-121.

Jensen, L., J. Findeis, W. Hsu, and J. Schachter. 1999. Slipping Into and Out of Underemployment: Another Disadvantage for Nonmetropolitan Workers. Rural Sociology 64:417-38.

Johnson, Thomas G. and James K. Scott. 2003. “A Comprehensive Approach to the Assessment of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Projects.” Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management. Forthcoming.

Johnson, Thomas G. 2002. “Where is the Place in Space?” Review of Regional Studies 32.

Johnson, Thomas G. and Morgan Mundell. 2002. Cost of Community Services in Missouri Communities. Community Policy Analysis Center Report, University of Missouri – Columbia, May.

Jones, K. 1999. An Integrated Input-Output/Econometric Model of Pennsylvania’s Agricultural Economy. Ph.D. dissertation. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Jones, Lonnie L. and Judith I. Stallman. “Agricultural Taxes in Texas.” E-143. Texas Cooperative Extension, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas. 2002. pp. 6.

http://agpublications.tamu.edu/pubs/ce/e143.pdf

Julia-Wise, Roxana, S. Cooke and David Holland. “A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of a Property Tax Limitation Initiative in Idaho.” Land Economics, May 2002, 78(2): 207-227.

Kilkenny, Maureen "Interregional Fiscal Impact Accounting," 1998. Growth and Change 30(4):567-589.

Kilkenny, Maureen. 1999. “Explicitly Spatial Rural-Urban Computable General Equilibrium.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 81(3):647-652.

Kilkenny, M., H. Jensen, S. Garasky, and J. Olmstead. 2000 “Welfare and Food Assistance at the State and Substate Level: A Framework for Evaluating Economic and Programmatic Changes.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 82(3):649-655. (August).

Kilkenny, Maureen and Sonya Huffmann “Rural/Urban Welfare Program and Labor Force Participation,” forthcoming American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2003).

Kilkenny, Maureen “Fiscal Social Accounting Matrix Analysis.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Abstract Volume 80, Number 5

Kilkenny, Maureen and Alicia Failde, Fiscal SAMs and Fiscal Federalism, Technical Report 98-TR-41 CARD: Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Ames, Iowa; December, 1998.

Kovalyova, Anna E. 2002. Livingston County Baseline: 2000-2010. Report B-2002-04. Community Policy Analysis Center Report. University of Missouri—Columbia. December.

Kovalyova, Anna E. 2002. City of Hollister Transportation Study: 2001-2011. Report B-2002-05. Community Policy Analysis Center Report. University of Missouri—Columbia. December.

Kovalyova, Anna E. 2002. Stone County Economic Analysis and Baseline: 2000-2010. Report B-2002-01. Community Policy Analysis Center Report. University of Missouri—Columbia. September.

Kraybill, David S. and Bruce A. Weber, “Workforce Investments and Poverty Dynamics,” Review of Regional Studies, 31(3):237-254, Winter 2001 [published 2002]

Kraybill, D.S. and B.A. Weber. 2001. Workforce investments and poverty dynamics. Rev. Reg. Stud. 31(3): 237-254.

Kriesel, Warren. 2002. “Providing Community Economic Analysis via Dynamic Web Pages: The Georgia Statistics System”. Chapter 5.1 in The Webbook of IT Innovations, Stefan J. Goetz and Bruce DeYoung, eds. http://www.cas.nercrd.psu.edu/Publications/Webbook/wbHome.htm

Lansford, Notie H. Jr. and Judith I. Stallmann. “Our Taxes: Comparing Oklahoma with Other States for 1997.” Current Report, CR-960-0102. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University. 2002. pp. 12. http://agweb.okstate.edu/pearl/agecon/resource/cr 960.pdf

Larson, J., J. Findeis and S.M. Smith. 2001. “Agricultural Adaptation to Urbanization in Southeastern Pennsylvania.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 30(1): 32-43.

Larson, J., J. Findeis, H. Swaminathan and Q. Wang. 2002. A Comparison of Data Sources for Hired Farm Labour Research. In: The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses. J. Findeis, A. Vandeman, J. Larson and J. Runyan (eds.). UK: CAB-International.

Larson, J. M, J. Findeis, H. Swminathan and Q. Wang. 2002. A Comparison of Data Sources for Hired Farm Labour Research: the NAWS and the CPS. In: The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community Responses. J. Findeis, A. Vandeman, J. Larson and J. Runyan (eds.). UK: CAB-International.

Larson, J., J. Findeis and S. Smith. 1999. Urban Pressure and Farm Change. Farm Economics. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University Park, PA.

Leatherman, John C. and Deller, Steven C. 2001. “Building Local Government Capacity: The Toolbox for Outreach Educators.” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. 31(1):91-110.

Lopez, Jim, George W, Borden, and Thomas R. Harris. “Demographic and Economic Trend Data for Nevada Counties: Southern Area Counties.” May 2002, UCED 2002/03-03.

Lopez, Jim, George W, Borden, and Thomas R. Harris. “Demographic and Economic Trend Data for Nevada Counties: Western Area Counties.” May 2002, UCED 2002/03-04.

Lopez, Jim, George W, Borden, and Thomas R. Harris. “Demographic and Economic Trend Data for Nevada Counties: Northeast Area Counties.” May 2002, UCED 2002/03-05.

Lopez, Jim, George W, Borden, and Thomas R. Harris. “Demographic and Economic Trend Data for Nevada Counties: Central Area Counties.” May 2002, UCED 2002/03-06.

Marcouiller, David W. and Deller, Steven C. 2001. “Thirty Years of Academic Publishing in Regional Studies: A Content Analysis of the MCRSA’s Scholarly Output.” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. 31(2):33-44.

Miller, Kathleen K., Mindy S. Crandall, and Bruce A. Weber, “Persistent Poverty and Place: How Do Persistent Poverty and Poverty Demographics Vary Across the Rural-Urban Continuum?”, paper prepared for the “Measuring Rural Diversity” conference sponsored by the USDA Economic Research Service, Washington DC, November 21-22, 2002

Ngarambé, O. and S. J. Goetz. 1998. Determinants of Regional Income Distribution in the U.S. South, 1980-1990: Roles of Net Migration and Human Capital Accumulation. Review of Black Political Economy 26(2):325-37.

Ngarambé, O., S. J. Goetz and D. L. Debertin. 1998. Regional Economic Growth and Income Distribution: County-Level Evidence from the U.S. South. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30 (December):325-37.

Oluwole, T. 2000. An Econometric Analysis of Off-farm Labor Participation and Farmer Exit Decisions Among Farm Families, 1977-1998. M.S. thesis in Agricultural Economics, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. 135pp.

Ortega-Sanchez, I. 2001. Labor Out-migration Impacts on Agrarian Economies: The Case of Central and Southern Mexican Communities. Ph.D. dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 306pp.

Renkow, Mitch. 2003 (forthcoming). “Employment Growth, Worker Mobility, and Rural Economic Development,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(2): 504-514.

Renkow, Mitch. 2002. “Rural Employment Growth: Who Gets the Jobs?” NC State Economist (July).

Ritz, R. 2001. Welfare, Work, and Underemployment: An Analysis of Low-Income Single Females, 1990-2000. M.S. thesis in Agricultural Economics and Demography, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. 148 pp.

Rupasingha, A., S. J. Goetz and D. Freshwater. 2000. Social Capital and Economic Growth: A County-Level Analysis. J. Agricultural and Applied Economics 32(3):565-72.

Rupasingha, A., S. J. Goetz and D. Freshwater. 2002. Social and Institutional Factors as Determinants of Economic Growth: Evidence from the United States Counties. Papers in Regional Science (81): 139-55.

Scorsone, E., D. Thilmany and S. Weiler. 2002. “Bridging the Rural-Urban Opportunity Gap. Foresight: Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center. Vol. 9, No. 1

Seung, C. and D.S. Kraybill. 1999. Tax incentives in an economy with public goods. Growth and Change 30(1): 128-147.

Shields, M., and J. Findeis. 1998. How Might an Increase in the Minimum Wage Affect U.S. Farms. Agricultural Law Update 15(9):4-6.

Shields, Martin, and Deller, Steven C. (forthcoming). “Using Economic Impact Models as an Educational Tool in Community Economic Development Programming: Lessons from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.” Journal of Extension.

Shields, Martin, Judith I. Stallmann, and Steven C. Deller. “The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of the Elderly on a Small Rural Region.” Journal of the Community Development Society. Forthcoming

Smith, S.M., and K. Miller. 2001 Successful Adjustment to Economic Restructuring in the Nonmetro Northeast: 1950-1990. The Review of Regional Studies 31(2): 121-47.

Swenson, David and Deller, Steven C. 2001. “Devolution or Convolution? The Changing Relationship Between Federal, State and Local Governments.” Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. 31(1):49-76.

Thilmany, D. 2002. “The Hispanic Labor Force in Colorado’s Agricultural and Rural Economy.” The Colorado-Mexico Connection: Agricultural Trade, Labor & Other Factors. 2002 Colorado Agricultural Outlook Forum Publication. February. Denver CO.

Thilmany, D. and M. Miller. The Dynamics of the Washington Farm Labor Market. Dynamics of Hired Farm Labor: Constraints and Community Response. CAB International, UK.

Thilmany, D. and J. Grannis. “Marketing Natural Pork: An Empirical Analysis of Mountain Region Consumers.” Agribusiness 18(October 2002): 475-89.

Tracy, John, Saxson Sharpe, Thomas R. Harris, Tim Darden, Mark Eiswerth, and Chang Seung. Administrative Draft: Environmental Impact Statement for Walker River Basin Project, United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Carson City, 2002.

Wang, Q. 1999. Underemployment Dynamics of Women in the United States. M.S. thesis. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 130 pp.

Weber, Bruce A., Review of The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests by William P. Browne, Journal of Regional Science, (forthcoming)

Weber, B., and B. Sorte. "The Upper Klamath Basin Economy and the Role of Agriculture." Chapter 11 in Water Allocation in the Klamath Reclamation Project, 2001: An Assessment of Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues with a Focus on the Upper Klamath Basin, W.S. Braunworth, Jr., T. Welch, and R. Hathaway, eds. Special Report 1037. Corvallis: Oregon State University Extension Service. December 2002.

Weber, B., J. Cornelius, B. Sorte, and W. Boggess. "Impact of the 2001 Klamath Reclamation Project Operations Plan on the Economy of the Upper Klamath Basin." Chapter 13 in Water Allocation in the Klamath Reclamation Project, 2001: An Assessment of Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues with a Focus on the Upper Klamath Basin, W.S

Weber, Bruce A., Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener, editors, Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform. Kalamazoo MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 2002

Whitener, Leslie A., Bruce A. Weber, and Greg J. Duncan, "As the Dust Settles: A Post-Welfare Reform Look at Rural America " in Bruce A. Weber, Greg J. Duncan, and Leslie A. Whitener, editors, Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform, Kalamazoo MI: W.E.Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002

Whitener, Leslie A., Greg J. Duncan, and Bruce A. Weber, “Reforming Welfare: What Does It Mean for Rural Areas?” Issues in Food Assistance, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 26-4, Washington DC: US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, June 2002

Whitener, Leslie A., Bruce A. Weber, and Greg J Duncan, “As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural America” Employment Research, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 9(2):3-5, April 2002

Zeuli, Kimbery and Deller, Steven C. 2002. “The Role of Agriculture in the Midwest Economy.” In Policies Affecting the Rural Midwest. Norman Walzer (ed) Praeger Press (forthcoming).