Annual/Termination Reports:

[07/27/2022] [06/26/2023]

Report Information

Participants

Craig Wesley Carpenter, Texas A&M University and Michigan State University, President
Ayoung Kim, Mississippi State University, President-elect/Secretary

Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Stephan Goetz, Penn State University
Jamie Greig, University of Tennessee
John Halstead, University of New Hampshire
Tom Harris, University of Nevada – Reno
Sarah Low, University of Missouri
Sankar Mukhopadhyay, University of Nevada – Reno
Heather Stephens, West Virginia University
Margarita Teran-Garcia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
Anders Van Sandt, University of Wyoming
Andrew Van Leuven, Oklahoma State University

Peggy Brennan, Rutgers University, Administrative Advisor

Brief Summary of Minutes

Brief Summary of Minutes from Annual Meeting with Information from Non-Attendees

 

Notes (by attendee)

 

Craig Carpenter, Texas A&M University and Michigan State University

• Ongoing working in the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) to research military veteran entrepreneurs. Beginning second round of focus groups in Michigan and Illinois and developing Extension materials. Kristopher Demining began as postdoctoral association at Michigan State University. (Project fundings by USDA NIFA.)


• New USDA NIFA project to examine long-run economic opportunity 1920-2020, with particular attention to racial disparities and related discriminatory policies. This is a fully integrated (research, Extension, teaching) project which conducts FSRDC research, and then will develop Extension and teaching modular materials for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Substantial data work this year and a first round of focus groups.


• New research project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation to examine long-run effects of urban redlining, particularly effects on housing (relevant to this project), and which policies helped or did not help in diminishing those long-run effects.


• New project to examine the “Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Processing Facility Movement and Food Dollar.” In particular, Dr. Carpenter am helping with the (changing) location choice decisions of agricultural processing facilities.


• Most of my publications this year relate to an ending USDA NIFA grant that leveraged the FSRDC system to advance locational choice research and developed an Extension mapping tool that was adopted by Michigan State University Extension, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, and University of Wyoming Extension.


• Carpenter has devoted substantial time to working on affordable, attainable, and equitable housing Extension curriculums. This includes delineating the history of redlining. These educational materials won a national award from the National Association of Community Development Professionals.

 

Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University

• Colorado faces a unique set of challenges, including an economy based on many legacy, resource-intensive sectors such as agriculture and energy, that is now transitioning to more knowledge-based industries.  This transition, together with COVID disruptions and a migration of households who see remote work as an option will very likely change the population, workforce and economic development needs of Colorado communities.


• Although Colorado faces a unique issues and opportunities, having examples from within the state and from other regions of the US with similar challenges can be very helpful to our work.  Through tools, publications, webinars and fact sheets that other members of the regional research group share, we have been able to increase the resources we have offered rural leaders to help them understand their current standing and options to consider. 


• We have initiated a number of activities that align with our stakeholders' priorities, and we know these are well targeted because they were driven by community-based questions and conversations.  With our partners in the Regional Economic Development Institute (https://redi.colostate.edu/), we continue to produce bi-monthly REDI reports on a variety of topics from workforce trends and policy, to public services (education, housing), to economic considerations around specific projects (a new state park).  In addition, we host occasional webinars to discuss current issues, including a fall webinar on the changing farm labor policy landscape. 


• To address the broader set of needs among our communities, we have started to develop some new data metrics that all counties can access to learn about both how their area compares to the state, but also, how those data change across time (perhaps helping them to evaluate progress on targeted economic or community goals).  And, to contribute to the broader field and literature, we frame and publish research on challenges we know are present in Colorado, but may also be affecting other regions of the country including localized food systems, agritourism and labor markets.


• Our work on this topic is being augmented currently by an Economic Development Administration grant, which is allowing us to more and targeted work with three regions of the state.  More information at: https://edapartners.colostate.edu/about-the-team/  This is a nice integrating of USDA and EDA investments in rural development.

Andrew Van Leuven, Oklahoma State University

• Working on a statewide “data hub” for rural Oklahoma economies, which will be paired with available workshops on data literacy
  
  
  
  • Piloted the data literacy workshop as an Extension in-service training, and there’s some strong demand for repeating it for non-extension folks.
  
  
  
  


• Also working on a small business needs survey for rural Oklahoma businesses (piloting that with Pontotoc County, Ada Chamber, and Pontotoc Technology Center).

 

Anders Van Sandt, University of Wyoming

• Health-focus group interviews for a health improvement strategy


• Developing AFRI grant on health access


• Physical, financial, and social access to care: to identify imperfect substitute (?) in rural communities


• Climate resilience: water hazard, drought, flood, wildfire


• Working with western rural development center-health extension

 

Tom Harris, University of Nevada – Reno

• Center of Economic Development, extra funding for CARES


• Nevada economic analysis


• Clark county: Education linking programs economic industry, development of occupations


• Public issue: surface water; regional model for regional impact, tourism, multiplier

 

Sankar Mukhopadhyay, University of Nevada

• Labor and Health, policy-related


• Obesity and mental health


• Mental health outcomes (people with obesity): rural vs. urban

 

John Halstead, University of New Hampshire

• SBIR: an alternative method of streamlining the distribution process of local products


• cutting down processing, marketing, and administrative costs


• Animal science grant through NIFA


• PFAS, forever chemicals
  
  
  
  • Household survey work
  
  
  • Local & state department of environment service
  
  
  • USGS: hotspots airport base manufacturing plants
  
  
  • Effects of contamination on residential property
  
  
  
  

 

Jamie Greig, University of Tennessee

• Energy justice and internet burden: Impact of Covid-19 on energy and internet burden


• Appalachian diabetes
  
  
  
  • Impact of distance education on diabetes
  
  
  
  


• Submitted proposal


• Digital literacy, farming community, and rural libraries


• Broadband access

 

Margarita Teran-Garcia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Health Extension


• Hispanic health


• Obesity prevention, to determine genes, environment, socio-economic, and health factors


• Multistate grants with Hispanic institutions (CA, Hudson, Puerto Rico, Iowa State)
  
  
  
  • Survey, Health education, Digital/hybrid method to evaluate the impact of nutrition education
  
  
  
  


• Collaborating with others on chronicle disease prevention

 

Sarah Low, University of Missouri

• Collaborated with Dawn


• Health project
  
  
  
  • Working with ERS and Andrew
  
  
  • Disproportionate rural mortality
  
  
  • High (natural) mortality rate of white women, working-age women dying
  
  
  
  


• Broadband
  
  
  
  • Working with social science and engineering
  
  
  
  

 

Stephen Goetz, Penn State University and NERCRD

• Liz, Heather, and Stephen’s paper about the life expectancy difference b/w male and female


• Housing supply and demand
  
  
  
  • With Heather Stephens
  
  
  
  


• Paper With Steve Deller
  
  
  
  • Will be presented at ERSA
  
  
  • Differences in COVID-related death across urban areas
  
  
  
  


• With Dawn
  
  
  
  • Threshold model for wineries, breweries, and distilleries
  
  
  • Wine economics conference
  
  
  
  


• Tourism

 

Heather Stephens, West Virginia University

• Board chair of NERCRD


• Impact of COVID on Tourism and housing in the northeast (With Stephen)


• Entrepreneurship (writing a proposal with NERCRD associate director)


• Some projects With Steve Deller


• Organized AAEA sessions last year


• Collaborations with the Brookings Institute, and other regional economic development institutions like Appalachian Regional Commission, Delta Regional Authority


• BEA advisory council, regional data, new county (or sub-county)

 

Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin

• The focus of the applied research undertaken at the University of Wisconsin helped to better understand the underlying factors affecting rural economic growth and development.
  
  
  
  • This includes issues related to income inequality and women entrepreneurs, religion as a specific form of social capital, and student loan debt, among others.
  
  
  
  


• A consistent conclusion is that rural America is extremely heterogenous and policies that may be effective in one part of rural America may not be effective in other parts.


• The Extension focused work on rural broadband resulted in significant media converge and has directly impacts how the Governor of Wisconsin is investing CARES Act funding for broadband.


• The work benefited from partnership with other NE2249, particularly at the University of Idaho and the University of Missouri.

 

 

 

Notes (by Non-attendees)

 

Michael Betz, Ohio State University

• In 2018, The Ohio State University embarked on a new initiative to combat the opioid and substance misuse epidemic that is plaguing the state. Initially, our group worked with 9 counties to implement the PROSPER delivery system, an evidence-based model that has proven successful for nearly two decades in eight states across the country, originating from Iowa State University.


• Since then, our work has evolved and expanded to 12 counties and 15 schools. We have engaged Community Teams in all 12 counties and hundreds of community members that work together to support prevention initiatives. The Ohio Youth Resilience Collaborative offers infrastructure and technical assistance for a menu of prevention programs. One distinguishing feature of OYRC is that the effort is supported in the community so that it can be sustained year after year.

 

 

Diane Charlton, Montana State University

• Several working projects:


• “Effects of Global Trade Policies on Rural Labor Markets” with Amanda Countryman and Dale Manning
  
  
  
  • We measure effects of variation in crop, livestock, and non-farm tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade on U.S. imports and foreign imports of U.S. goods on U.S. county-level employment and wages. We measure county-level exposure to trade using base-year county employment shares by industry and annual tariff data by 6-digit harmonized system codes, weighted by export shares with each trading partner in a base year.
  
  
  
  


• “The Role of Farm Labor Contractors in Tight Labor Markets: Evidence from 287(g) Policies” with Genti Kostandini and Tianyuan Luo
  
  
  
  • We measure impacts of 287(g) policies on fruit production, contract labor expenditures, and employment and wages by citizenship status and employer type (farm labor contractor or direct hire).
  
  
  
  


• “H-2A Guest Worker Demand Response to Local Changes in Incidence of COVID-19” with Skyler Simnitt and Marcelo Castillo
  
  
  
  • We measure the effects of monthly variation in COVID-19 exposure within U.S. counties on annual changes in monthly H-2A employment and H-2A requests.
  
  
  
  


• “Economic Feasibility of Adopting Robotic Apple Harvesters” with Stephen Devadoss, Karina Gallardo, and Jeff Luckstead
  
  
  
  • We estimate feasible costs and efficiencies of robotic apple harvesters that would be necessary for robots to replace H-2A workers for the harvest of commercial apples
  
  
  
  

 

Elizabeth Davis and Laura Kalambokidis, University of Minnesota

•  A key goal under Objective 1 is to identify infrastructure needs (broadly defined) to help address chronic and pandemic-driven labor shortages. In order to understand the link between child care availability and local labor markets, researchers developed and analyzed measures of child care accessibility across the dimensions of supply, cost and quality based on the spatial distribution (e.g., travel time) between families and child care providers. We developed maps and data visualizations to show the variation in child care access for families in different parts of Minnesota prior to the pandemic and since 2020. In addition, we analyzed how public funding for child care and early education impacts the supply and quality of child care over time and across rural areas in order to identify strategies that work to increase supply of child care. Also under objective 1, regarding research on tax revenue forecasting, we calculated the forecast errors for Minnesota's general fund revenue forecast for the current biennium (two-year budget period). We produce two revenue forecasts per calendar year, in February and November. The difference between the level of revenue forecast and the amount actually collected at the end of a biennium--the forecast error--is a gauge of forecast accuracy. The mean absolute error (MAE) is the average of the errors' absolute values (that is, treating negative and positive errors the same). State and local policymakers have benefited from research findings to inform their policy decisions with regards to managing the budgetary risk of tax revenue volatility.


• Expansion of the supply of high-quality child care will help families access the care they need and may expand the availability of labor in rural areas. Our project helps to identify those areas with the greatest mismatch between families needing child care and availability of supply. The economic vitality of Minnesota's communities depends on investments made by state government. The state operating and capital budgets provide funds for public infrastructure, education, health care, workforce development, business development, and more. By improving the accuracy of state revenue forecasts, our project provides consistency and certainty to local governments’ and nonprofit organizations’ budgets.

 

Siew Lim, North Dakota State University

• The study evaluates the economic benefits of NASA’s remote sensing technology to the agricultural sector in the Red River Valley of the North basin (RRB). Previously, forecast errors had led to inadequate flood preparations that resulted in tremendous losses and overspending of taxpayer’s dollars in flood response. NASA’s satellite microwave remote sensing technology offers improved snow water equivalent measurement information needed for spring flood forecasting in this region. This study evaluates the economic benefits of the technology use to the farm sector in the RRB. We found that farm support for the technology use for river flood forecast is overwhelming, and higher farm’s support yields higher willingness to pay for the product use. However, landowners who lease to farm operators have noticeably zero perceived economic valuation of the product even though river flooding on their land could depress future land value.


• We study landowner’s preferences for conservation reserve program (CRP) contract design. We find that landowners prefer shorter to longer contract lengths, higher rental payment to landowners increased likelihood of participation, landowners were more likely to accept a contract that provided a more flexible land use alternative.

 

 

Mark Skidmore, Michigan State University

• Over the past 1.5 years, I have conducted work in health/well-being, disaster resilience, and public finance. In addition to the work listed above, I have ongoing work examining the impacts of extreme heat and wildfires on health.


• I also have work in the public finance and economic development arena.


• I was also recently awarded a USDA grant (Measuring and Mapping Rural Inflation), which has direct relevance to the NE2249 Multi-state group.

 

 

Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University

• Brian Whitacre continues to work on broadband issues, and is a member of Oklahoma’s Broadband Expansion Council. His rural library hotspot loan program continues to see success, with 26 libraries participating.


• He is working with other researchers and extension educators to help promote the newly enacted Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides a $30-$75 monthly subsidy for home broadband service to eligible households.


• He also works with Alison Davis at Kentucky on the Center for the Economic Analysis of Rural Health. They just finished their 1st 3 years of funding and hope to win another 3-year award. 

One extension project he is excited about is his collaboration with the state Department of Libraries and OSU’s Medical School to put telehealth “boxes” – soundproof rooms with telehealth equipment – in 5 rural libraries across the state.    

Accomplishments

<h1>Impact and indicators</h1><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Grant Awards (project member collaborations)</h2><br /> <p>Thilmany, Dawn, A. Bauman and B. Jablonski. 2021-2022. &ldquo;Development and Expansion of a State-Specific Economic Impact Calculator for Nutrition Incentive Projects.&rdquo; <em>Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition Incentives</em>. Collaborating with Phil Watson and U of Idaho. $82,000.</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, Dawn, 2021-2023. &ldquo;Assessing Sustainable Development Goals: Six Cross-Nationally Comparable Agri-Food Pilot Studies.&rdquo; <em>Cooperative Agreement with USDA Economic Research Service and Cornell University</em>. Craig Carpenter and Phil Watson on the committee received subawards from this project. $425,000.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Grant Awards (other)</h2><br /> <p>Anders, John, and Craig Wesley Carpenter. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Measure the Direct, Intergenerational, and Interactive Impacts of Redlining and Education.&rdquo; <em>Russell Sage Foundation</em>. $170,881.</p><br /> <p>Betz, M. R. &amp; Snyder, A. 2018-2022. &ldquo;Shale energy development: A boom or bust for rural families and their communities?&rdquo; <em>United States Department of Agriculture</em>. $499,435.</p><br /> <p>Betz, M. R., Martin, K., Wapner, A., &amp; Julian, D. 2020-2022. &ldquo;Preventing opioid misuse and abuse in rural Ohio through enhanced family and community education and training.&rdquo; <em>Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency</em>. $1,080,219.</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, John Anders, Marcus Bernard, Trey Malone, and Charles M. Tolbert. 2022-2025. &ldquo;Documenting Discrimination and Researching Policy: Racial Inequality and Economic Opportunity in Rural America 1920-2020.&rdquo; <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $650,000.</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Charles Tolbert, and Rick Peterson. 2018-2023. &ldquo;Leveraging Big Data to Investigate and Support &lsquo;Vetrepreneurs.&rsquo;&rdquo; <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $500,000.</p><br /> <p>Davis, Alison, and Brian Whitacre. 2021-2022. &ldquo;Center for Economic Analysis of Rural Health (CEARH).&rdquo; Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy. $225,000.</p><br /> <p>Kim, Ayoung, et al. 2020-2024. &ldquo;Resilient Biomass-Combined Heat and Power Systems for Rural Communities.&rdquo; Co-PI <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $1,000,000.</p><br /> <p>Kim, Ayoung, et al. 2021-2024. &ldquo;The Racial Wealth Gap, Persistent Poverty and Heirs&rsquo; Property: Analysis, Connections, and Solutions.&rdquo; Co-PI <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $499,997.</p><br /> <p>Lotspeich-Yadao, Michael, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Charles Tolbert. 2021-2023. &ldquo;Data-Driven Extension Programming for Rural Veteran Workforce Reintegration.&rdquo; <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $125,933, awarded and returned due to postdoctoral fellow (Lotspeich-Yadao) faculty placement.</p><br /> <p>Loveridge, Scott, Mark Skidmore, et al. 2022-2026. &ldquo;Measuring and Mapping Rural Inflation.&rdquo; <em>USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. $800,000.</p><br /> <p>Low, Sarah et al. The Growing Rural Health Disadvantage: Causes and Consequences for Rural Labor Markets. 2021-2023. <em>USDA Economic Research Service</em>, non-assistance cooperative agreement. $145,000.</p><br /> <p>Low, Sarah et al. State and Regional Farm Financial Analysis. 2021-2024. <em>USDA Office of the Chief Economist,&nbsp;Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers</em>. $1,425,000.</p><br /> <p>McCarl, Bruce, Chengcheng Fei, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Ronald Sands. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Processing Facility Movement and Food Dollar.&rdquo; <em>USDA Economic Research Service</em>. $75,000.</p><br /> <p>Ohara, Angle, Ekin, Rutherford, and Whitacre. 2021-2022. &ldquo;Revitalizing Rural - Rural - Equipping Rural Communities with Technology Literacy for Seizing Productivity.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>National Science Foundation</em>.&nbsp; $150,000.</p><br /> <p>Skidmore, Mark. 2021-2022. &ldquo;Valuing Land in Detroit Using the Option Value Approach.&rdquo; <em>Lincoln Institute of Land Policy</em>. $15,000.</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, Dawn, T. Marks, D. Mooney and R. Hill. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Cross-State Heterogeneity of Farm-Scale Hemp Production Costs.&rdquo; Subcontract with University of Kentucky and Cooperative Agreement with the USDA Ag Marketing Service.&nbsp; $360,000.</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, Dawn, S. Weiler, S. Shrake, A. Sintas, R. Hill. 2020-2022. &ldquo;Planning and Technical Support to Diversify Economic Opportunities in Colorado: A Technical Assistance Project.&rdquo; <em>Economic Development Administration</em>. $575,000.</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders 2022. &ldquo;Unlocking Community Health Access Together (UCHAT).&rdquo; <em>University of Wyoming</em>. $20,000.</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders. 2022. &ldquo;Developing an online mapping tool to house and display Wyoming data on economics, demographics, land, industries, amenities, health risks and outcomes, and other information relevant to Wyoming stakeholders.&rdquo; University of Wyoming. $10,000.</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian. 2022-2023 &ldquo;Library Telehealth Boxes in Persistent Poverty Rural Oklahoma Counties.&rdquo; <em>Oklahoma State Department of Health</em>. $150,000.</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Impacts of Broadband Speed on Rural Business Dynamics.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>USDA &ndash; Economic Research Service</em>.&nbsp; $20,000. Funding Christina Biedny (Ph.D. student).</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Extension Programs (project member collaborations)</h2><br /> <p>Community-Opportunity Matching Program (Michigan, Texas, and Wyoming) <a href="https://communities.tamu.edu/economic-opportunity-maps/">https://communities.tamu.edu/economic-opportunity-maps/</a></p><br /> <p><a href="https://www.canr.msu.edu/economic_development/economic-opportunity-maps/">https://www.canr.msu.edu/economic_development/economic-opportunity-maps/</a></p><br /> <p><a href="https://www.uwyo.edu/uwe/economic-opportunity-maps/">https://www.uwyo.edu/uwe/economic-opportunity-maps/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Homegrown: Entrepreneurship in your Community (Missouri &amp; Wisconsin) <a href="https://extension.missouri.edu/programs/exceed-community-economic-and-entrepreneurial-development/entrepreneurial-ecosystems">https://extension.missouri.edu/programs/exceed-community-economic-and-entrepreneurial-development/entrepreneurial-ecosystems</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Extension Programs (other)</h2><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Cultivating Community Preparedness &ndash; Conducting survey and interview work to identify barriers and opportunities that may assist or hinder a community&rsquo;s ability to prepare for or address water related natural hazards (floods, drought, wildfire, etc.).</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>The History of Redlining for Extension DEI and Housing Programs:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/">https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Rural and Farm Finance Policy Analysis Center&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ruralandfarmfinance.com">www.ruralandfarmfinance.com</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>The UCHAT Project &ndash; Joint project with Wyoming Department of Health. Interviewed underrepresented groups regarding engagement in public health decision making. Subsequently led a series of online roundtable deliberations to develop common ground around potential health improvement strategies for the Wyoming Department of Health&rsquo;s State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP).</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Rural Engagement Initiative at Colorado State University. Dawn Thilmany co-leads the work focused on Thriving Economy / Food and Agriculture. In addition to continuing to make progress rebuilding community relationships and communicating the increased capacity to work in Economic development alongside our Vibrant Community partners (FLTI, Engaged Centers), we are centering rural initiative work in three areas:</p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Targeted Technical Assistance for food/ag enterprises, sectors and community initiatives</li><br /> <li>Co-Creating Entrepreneurial Programs with Community colleges and producer associations</li><br /> <li>Data platforms and decision tools to guide market strategies and new investments</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>In addition, CSU and Dawn Thilmany have other projects at the intersection of food and economic development:</p><br /> <ul><br /> <li>Work with U of Kentucky and USDA Ag Marketing Service. Grant and Extension programs focused on Local and Regional Food System Response to COVID-19. Cooperative Agreement with the USDA Ag Marketing Service.&nbsp; $650,000.&nbsp; 2021-23. With B. Jablonski and L. Brislen.</li><br /> <li>Agritourism Extension in the United States. Agritourism collaborative and summary of working Submitted to the Applied Economics Teaching Resources Special Issue on Extension. (with C. Schmidt, C. Barbieri, L. Dickes, L. Chase, S. Tomas, D. Singh-Knights, P. Leff, H. George, R. Callahan, E. Rilla-Laherty, D. Lamie and S. Cornelisse)</li><br /> </ul><br /> <p>Rural Library Hotspot Lending Program. Website: <a href="https://extension.okstate.edu/programs/rural-library-hotspot-lending-program/index.html">https://extension.okstate.edu/programs/rural-library-hotspot-lending-program/index.html</a> Up to 7^th round (3-5 libraries each round); mostly funded through AARP.&nbsp; 26 libraries in total.</p><br /> <p>Solid Waste Management. Website: <a href="https://extension.okstate.edu/programs/solid-waste-management/">https://extension.okstate.edu/programs/solid-waste-management/</a> Funded annually through USDA RUS grant.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong></strong>Two webinars were conducted with federal and state policymakers as well as a presentation to Minnesota state agency staff to describe the findings and policy implications. Results of the revenue forecast error analysis have been published as the "Revenue Uncertainty Report" on the Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) website. Our work on Minnesota's revenue volatility has been published as the "Budget Reserve Recommendation Report" on MMB's website. The November 2020 and February 2021 "Budget and Economic Forecasts" are published on MMB&rsquo;s website and were presented to the governor, legislative leadership, and the press via in-person meetings, teleconferences, and news conferences.</p>

Publications

<h2>Journal Articles (project member collaborations)</h2><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Tyler Augst, Harmony Fierke-Gmazel, Bradley Nuemann, and Richard Wooten. 2022. &ldquo;Pursuing Antiracist Public Policy Education: An Example Connecting the Racist History of Housing Policy to Contemporary Inequity.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Extension</em>, forthcoming.</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Anders Van Sandt, Rebekka Dudensing, Scott Loveridge, and Linda Niehm. 2022. &ldquo;The Economic Opportunity Mapping (EOM) Tool.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Extension</em>, forthcoming.</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Michael Lotspeich-Yadao, and Charles M. Tolbert. 2022. &ldquo;When to Use Commuting Zones? An Empirical Description of Spatial Spillover Effects in U.S. Counties versus Commuting Zones.&rdquo; <em>PLoS ONE</em>, 17(7): e0270303. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270303</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Anders Van Sandt, and Scott Loveridge. 2022. &ldquo;Measurement Error in U.S. Regional Economic Data.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Regional Science</em>, 62(1): 57-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12551</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Rebekka Dudensing, and Anders Van Sandt. 2022. &ldquo;Estimating Determinants of Establishment Locations of Transportation and Warehousing Industries Using U.S. Administrative Data.&rdquo; <em>REGION</em>, 9(1): 1&ndash;27. https://doi.org/10.18335/region.v9i1.366</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Anders Van Sandt, Rebekka Dudensing, and Scott Loveridge. 2022. &ldquo;Profit Pools and Determinants of Potential County-Level Manufacturing Growth.&rdquo; <em>International Regional Science Review</em>, 45(2), 188-224. https://doi.org/10.1177/01600176211028761</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Anders Van Sandt, and Scott Loveridge. 2021. &ldquo;Empirical Methods in Business Location Research.&rdquo; <em>Regional Studies, Regional Science</em>, 8(1): 344-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2021.1976261</p><br /> <p>Conroy, T. &amp; S.A. Low. In Press. &ldquo;Opportunity, Necessity and No One in the Middle: A Closer Look at Small, Rural and Female-led Entrepreneurship in the U.S.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>, 44(1), 162&ndash;196. doi: 10.1002/aepp.13193</p><br /> <p>Conroy. T. &amp; S.A. Low. 2022. &ldquo;Entrepreneurship, Broadband, and Gender: Evidence from Establishment Births in Rural America.&rdquo; <em>International Regional Science Review</em>, 45(1), 3-35.doi: 10.1177/01600176211018749</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven, Brian Whitacre, and Tessa Conroy. 2022. &ldquo;Rural Broadband Speeds and Business Startup Rates.&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>, 104(3): 999-1025.</p><br /> <p>Low, S.A., Bass, M., Thilmany, D., &amp; M. Castillo. 2021. &ldquo;Local Foods Go Downstream: Exploring the Spatial Factors Driving U.S. Food Manufacturing.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>, 43(3) 896-915. doi: 10.1002/aepp.13046</p><br /> <p>Low, S.A., Rahe M. &amp; A. Van Leuven. Accepted. &ldquo;Has COVID-19 made rural areas more attractive places to live? Survey evidence from northwest Missouri.&rdquo; <em>Regional Science, Policy and Practice</em>. doi:10.1111/rsp3.12543</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, D., Canales, E., Low, S.A., and K.A. Boys. 2021. &ldquo;Local Food Supply Chain Dynamics and Resilience During COVID-19.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>, 43(1)&nbsp; 86-104. doi: 10.1002/aepp.13121</p><br /> <p>Van Leuven, A., Hill, E. &amp; Low, S.A. Accepted. &ldquo;Which Side of Town? How Proximity to Critical Survival Factors Affects Rural Business Longevity. <em>Growth &amp; Change</em>.</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders, Craig Wesley Carpenter, Scott Loveridge, and Rebekka Dudensing. 2021. &ldquo;Estimating Determinants of Health Care Establishment Locations with Restricted Federal Administrative Data.&rdquo; <em>Health Economics</em>, 30(6): 1328-1346. http://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4242</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders, and Craig Wesley Carpenter. 2022. &ldquo;So Close, Yet So Far: The Benefits and Limits of Rural-Urban Industry Linkages.&rdquo; <em>Sustainability</em>, 14(5): 2875. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052875</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Charles M. Tolbert. 2022. &ldquo;Decomposing Local Bank Impacts with Demand Thresholds.&rdquo; <em>Annals of Regional Science</em>, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01148-4</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Journal Articles (other)</h2><br /> <p>Abboud, A., &amp; Betz, M. R. (2021). &ldquo;The local economic impacts of the oil and gas industry: Boom, bust and resilience to shocks.&rdquo; <em>Energy Economics</em>, 99, 105285.</p><br /> <p>Betz, M. R., &amp; Jones, L. E. (2022). &ldquo;Do opioid prescriptions lead to fatal car crashes?.&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Health Economics</em>, 8(3), 000-000.</p><br /> <p>Biedny, Christina, Brian Whitacre and Roberto Gallardo. 2022. &ldquo;Do &lsquo;Dig-Once&rsquo; and Permitting Policies Improve Fiber Availability?&rdquo; <em>Telecommunications Policy</em>, 46(5): 102294.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, and Scott Loveridge. 2021. &ldquo;Can Latinx Entrepreneurship Help Rural America?&rdquo; <em>Choices</em>, 36(4): 1-6. https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/submitted-articles/can-latinx-entrepreneurship-help-rural-america</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, and J. Matthew Fannin. 2021. &ldquo;Back to the Future: Re-Incorporation of &lsquo;Metropolitan Character&rsquo; in Core-Based Statistical Area Delineations.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy</em>, 51(2): 67-81. https://jrap.scholasticahq.com/article/27688-back-to-the-future-re-incorporation-of-metropolitan-character-in-u-s-core-based-statistical-area-delineations</p><br /> <p>Carvalho, Mckenzie, Amy Hagerman, and Brian Whitacre. 2022. &ldquo;Telework and COVID-19 Resiliency in the Southeastern United States.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy</em>, 52(1): 19-34.</p><br /> <p>Castillo, Marcelo and Diane Charlton. 2022. &ldquo;Housing Booms and H-2A Agricultural Guest Worker Employment.&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>.</p><br /> <p>Charlton, Diane, Alexander James, and Brock Smith. 2021. &ldquo;Seasonal Agricultural Activity and Crime.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>.</p><br /> <p>Charlton, Diane. .2021. &ldquo;Seasonal Farm Labor and COVID-19 Spread.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives &amp; Policy</em>.</p><br /> <p>Cho, Whoi, Brian Whitacre, and Claudia Rhoades. 2022. &ldquo;The Effect of Tornadoes on Housing Prices in Moore, Oklahoma.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Review of Regional Studies</em>, 52(1): 57-73. Link</p><br /> <p>Conroy, Tessa, Steven C. Deller, and Phil Watson. 2021. &ldquo;Income Inequality and the Rise of Women Entrepreneurs.&rdquo; Small Business Economics. 56(1):189-207.</p><br /> <p>Cuthbertson, Courtney, Alison Brennan, John Shutske, John Leatherman, Andrea Bjornestad, Lori Zierl, Katelyn Macy, Mark Skidmore, Pam Schallhorn, Jami Dellifield, and Esther Lin. 2022. &ldquo;An Effective Mental Health Literacy Program for Farm Financial Service Providers.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Agromedicine</em>, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2058666</p><br /> <p>Davis, Elizabeth E., Hasan K. Tosun, and Mallory Warner Richter. 2021. "After COVID-19, Will Child Care Survive in Rural Areas?"&nbsp;<em>Choices</em>. Quarter 3.</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven C. 2021. &ldquo;Are We in the 4th Wave of Economic Development? Southern Regional Science Fellows Address.&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Review of Regional Studies</em>. 51(2):233-245.</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven C., and Tessa Conroy. 2021. &ldquo;Spatial Patterns in the Relationship Between Religion and Economic Growth.&rdquo; Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. 51 (2): 1-37</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven C., and Jackson Parr. 2021. &ldquo;Does Student Loan Debt Hinder Community Well-Being?" International Journal of Community Well-Being. 4(2): 263&ndash;285.</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven C., Craig Maher, and Judith Stallmann. 2021. &ldquo;Do Tax and Expenditure Limitations Exacerbate Rising Income Inequality?&rdquo; <em>Economics and Politics</em>. 33(3):611-643.</p><br /> <p>Isley, C. and S.A. Low. In-Press. &ldquo;Impact of broadband availability and adoption on rural employment during COVID-19.&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>Telecommunications Policy.&nbsp;</em><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102310__;!!HXCxUKc!0f-4tbfRqhi1VZRCxnHuKJMZiwjk1REvf6l60ILrWeJ33FkIs7sC3ok4tIOZUXRqB4zy5LcXuUL2b6OVi9g$">10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102310</a></p><br /> <p>Kim, Ayoung, J. Lim, and A. Colletta, 2022. &ldquo;How Regional Economic Structure Matters in the Era of COVID-19: Resilience Capacity of U.S. states.&rdquo; <em>The Annals of Regional Science</em>, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01134-w</p><br /> <p>Kim, Ayoung, B.S. Waldorf, and N.T. Duncan, 2021. &ldquo;U.S. Immigration Policy and Brain Waste.&rdquo; <em>The Annals of Regional Science</em>, 66(2): 209-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-020-01017-y</p><br /> <p>Knowles, Scott, and Mark Skidmore. 2021. &ldquo;Cloud Seeding and Crops Yields:&nbsp; Evaluation of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project.&rdquo; <em>Weather, Climate, and Society</em>, 885-898, DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0010.1</p><br /> <p>Lim, SH, Y Ge, JM Jacobs and X Jia. 2022. Measuring the Economic Benefits of Advanced Technology Use for River Flood Forecasting. Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12781. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12781.</p><br /> <p>Lim, SH and C Wachenheim. 2022. Predicted enrollment in alternative attribute Conservation Reserve Program contracts. Land Use Policy, 117 (2022), 106090.&nbsp; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106090.</p><br /> <p>Palardy, N., M. Costanigro, J. Cannon, D. Thilmany, J. Berning, J. Bayham and J. Callaway. 2022. &ldquo;Beer Sales in Grocery and Convenience Stores: A Glass Half-Full for Craft Brewers?&rdquo; <em>Regional Studie</em>s. Forthcoming.</p><br /> <p>Park, SooJin and Steven C. Deller. 2021. &ldquo;Effect of Farm Structure on Rural Community Well-Being.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Rural Studies</em>. 87:300-313.</p><br /> <p>Rhoades, Claudia, Brian Whitacre, and Alison Davis. 2022. &ldquo;Higher Electronic Health Record (EHR) Functionality is Associated with Lower Operating Costs in Urban &ndash; But Not Rural &ndash; Hospitals.&rdquo; <em>Applied Clinical Informatics</em>, 13(3): 665-676.</p><br /> <p>Skidmore, Mark. 2021. &ldquo;Special Issue: Urban Economics.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Urban Affairs</em>, 43:5, 617, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2021.1923275</p><br /> <p>Sun, Quan, John Mann, and Mark Skidmore. 2021. &ldquo;The Impacts of Flooding and Business Activity and Employment: A Spatial Perspective on Small Business.&rdquo; <em>Water and Economic Policy</em>, forthcoming. 10.1142/S2382624X21400038</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, D., A. Bauman, J. Hadrich, B.B.R. Jablonski and M. Sullins. 2022. &ldquo;Unique Financing Strategies Among Beginning Farmers and Ranchers: Differences among Multi-Generational and Beginning Operations.&rdquo; <em>Agricultural Finance Review</em>. Forthcoming, DOI: 10.1108/AFR-05-2021-0070.</p><br /> <p>Van Leuven, A. J. 2022. Leveraging Main Street as a Real Estate Amenity: Downtown Revitalization and Residential Property Values. <em>Journal of Planning Education and Research</em>.</p><br /> <p>Van Leuven, A. J. 2022. A Method for Defining Downtown Business District Boundaries in Pre-Automobile Towns and Cities. <em>Cityscape</em>, 24(1), 369-382.</p><br /> <p>Watson, Philip, and Steven C. Deller. 2021. &ldquo;Tourism and Economic Resilience.&rdquo; <em>Tourism Economics</em>. Forthcoming.</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian, Lara Brooks, Mark Woodring, and Traber Smithson. 2022. &ldquo;Gauging Local Interest in Telemedicine:&nbsp; Are Online Surveys Enough?&rdquo;&nbsp; <em>Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved</em>, 33: 1198-1214.</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian, and Christina Biedny. 2022. &ldquo;A Preview of the Broadband Fabric:&nbsp; Opportunities and Issues for Researchers and Policymakers.&rdquo; <em>Telecommunications Policy</em>, 46(3): 102281.</p><br /> <p>Yun, S.D. and Ayoung Kim. 2022. &ldquo;Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: A Myth or Mismeasurement?&rdquo; <em>Applied Economics Letters</em>, 29(10): 861-866. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1896667</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Book chapters</h2><br /> <p>Ayoung Kim and B.S. Waldorf. 2021. &ldquo;Retirement, Relocation, and Residential Choices.&rdquo; In <em>Labor Market, Migration, and Mobility</em>.&rdquo; edited by W. Cochrane, M.P. Cameron, and O. Alimi, <em>New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives</em>, Vol. 45: 181-196, Springer, Singapore.</p><br /> <p>Deller, Steven C., Tessa Conroy, and Matt Kures. 2021. &ldquo;Immigration within a US Context: A Drain or Driver of Economic Development?&rdquo; <em>The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration</em>. Peter Nijkamp Mark Partridge and Bruce Newbold (eds). Springer.</p><br /> <p>Kim, E., Ayoung Kim, and I. Moon. 2022. &ldquo;Government Intervention in Real Estate Market: Is Tax Reform Effective in Seoul Housing Market?&rdquo; In <em>Theory and History in Regional Perspective</em>, edited by M. Kawano, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, and Y Higano, <em>New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives</em>, Vol. 56: 221-243, Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6695-7_12</p><br /> <p>Skidmore, Mark, et al. 2022. <em>Handbook on the Economics of Natural Disasters</em>. Mark Skidmore (ed.), North Hampton, MA, United States: Elgar, forthcoming.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Extension Articles (project member collaborations)</h2><br /> <p>Conroy, T. and S.A. Low. 2021. &ldquo;Research Report: Broadband Drives Growth in Women-led Rural Entrepreneurship.&rdquo; Daily Yonder blog. Available at: https://dailyyonder.com/research-report-broadband-drives-growth-in-women-led-rural-entrepreneurship/2021/12/08/</p><br /> <p>Conroy, T., Kures, M, Deller, S. Low, S. Glazer, J., Huyke, G., and C. Stark. 2021. &ldquo;Broadband and the Wisconsin Economy,&rdquo; The Wisconsin Economy, Study Series 7. Available at: https://economicdevelopment.extension.wisc.edu/files/2021/01/2021-01-07-Broadband-Report.pdf</p><br /> <p>Low, S.A., Isley, C., Spell, A., Kures, M., Conroy, T. 2021. &ldquo;Broadband Technologies: A Primer on Access and Solutions.&rdquo; University of Missouri Extension Guide, dm601. Available at: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm601</p><br /> <p>Low, S.A. Thilmany, D, Canales E. and K.A. Boys. 2021. &ldquo;Local and Regional Food System Resilience During COVID-19.&rdquo; University of Missouri Extension Guide dm301. January. Available at: <a href="https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm301">https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm301</a></p><br /> <p>McClure, H., Van Leuven, A, and S.A. Low. 2021. &ldquo;Transfer Payments to Individuals.&rdquo; Missouri Economy Indicator, 2(12), available at: https://extension.missouri.edu/media/wysiwyg/Extensiondata/Pro/ExCEED/Docs/MissouriEconomy_TransferPayments_v2i12_19Jul21.pdf</p><br /> <p>Van Sandt, Anders, and Craig Wesley Carpenter. 2022. &ldquo;Rural-Urban Linkages.&rdquo; Scholarly Community Encyclopedia, available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/21475</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2>Extension Articles (other)</h2><br /> <p>Augst, Tyler, Harmony Gmazel, Mary Reilly, Brad Neumann, Craig Carpenter, and Jinnifer Ortquist. 2021. &ldquo;Attainable, Affordable, Inclusive Housing Curriculum.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. East Lansing, MI.</p><br /> <p>Bastian, C., Anders Van Sandt, and R. Coupal. 2022. &ldquo;2020-2021 Wyoming Comprehensive Snowmobile Recreation Report.&rdquo; University of Wyoming, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Prepared for the State of Wyoming, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.</p><br /> <p>Boessen, C., S.A. Low, and B. Brown. 2022. The Future of the Conservation Reserve Program. Riff from RaFF, 1(3). April. Available at:&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ruralandfarmfinance.com/publications/__;!!HXCxUKc!0f-4tbfRqhi1VZRCxnHuKJMZiwjk1REvf6l60ILrWeJ33FkIs7sC3ok4tIOZUXRqB4zy5LcXuUL2tN8W1Pw$">https://ruralandfarmfinance.com/publications/</a></p><br /> <p>Boessen, C and S.A. Low. 2022. Agriculture&rsquo;s Contribution to the Rural Economy. Riff from RaFF. 1(1), February. Available at:&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ruralandfarmfinance.com/publications/__;!!HXCxUKc!0f-4tbfRqhi1VZRCxnHuKJMZiwjk1REvf6l60ILrWeJ33FkIs7sC3ok4tIOZUXRqB4zy5LcXuUL2tN8W1Pw$">https://ruralandfarmfinance.com/publications/</a></p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, and Michael Lotspeich-Yadao. 2022. &ldquo;Shop local, and support vetrepreneurs contributing to their local communities!&rdquo; <em>Southern Ag Today</em>.</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley, and Tyler Augst. 2021. &ldquo;Best Practices in Suburban Housing Affordability: Understanding, Motivating, and Policy Options.&rdquo; <em>Washington Center for Metropolitan Extension and Research</em>. Available at: https://metroextension.wsu.edu/</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: The History and Legacy of Racist Housing Policies.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Battle Creek.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/battle-creek</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Bay City.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/bay-city</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Detroit.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/detroit</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Flint.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/flint</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Grand Rapids.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/grand-rapids</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Jackson.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/jackson</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Kalamazoo.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/kalamazoo</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Lansing.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/lansing</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Muskegon.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/muskegon</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Pontiac.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/pontiac</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Saginaw.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/saginaw</p><br /> <p>Carpenter, Craig Wesley. 2021. &ldquo;Redlining in Michigan: Resources.&rdquo; <em>Michigan State University Extension</em>. https://www.canr.msu.edu/redlining/resources</p><br /> <p>Invited webinar presenter: &ldquo;After COVID-19, Will Child Care Survive in Rural Areas?" Webinar sponsored by C-FARE: Rural Communities One Year Post COVID-19, July 12, 2021. https://www.cfare.org/new-blog/rural-communities-one-year-post-covid-19 Invited panel presenter.</p><br /> <p>&ldquo;Promoting Sustainability of Child Care Programs during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for States in Allocating Financial Resources.&rdquo; Sponsored by the Office of Child Care and OPRE (U.S. DHHS). January 6, 2021.</p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, February 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/budget-and-economic-forecast/february-2021-forecast.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/budget-and-economic-forecast/february-2021-forecast.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Budget and Economic Forecast (Minnesota). St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, November 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/budget-and-economic-forecast/november-2021-forecast.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/budget-and-economic-forecast/november-2021-forecast.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Budget Reserve Report. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, September 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/budget-reserve/report-2021.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/budget-reserve/report-2021.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue and Economic Update. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, January 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/january.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/january.pdf </a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue and Economic Update. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, April 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/monthly-revenue-review/march.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/monthly-revenue-review/march.pdf </a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue and Economic Update. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, July 12, 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/july.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/july.pdf </a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue and Economic Update. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, October 11, 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/october.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/2021/revenue-and-economic-update/october.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue Forecast Uncertainty Report. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, March 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/uncertainty/2021/march-report.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/uncertainty/2021/march-report.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Kalambokidis, Laura, editor(s). Revenue Forecast Uncertainty Report. St. Paul, Minnesota:&nbsp; Minnesota State Office of Management and Budget, Economic Analysis, December 2021. Available at: <a href="https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/uncertainty/2021/december-report.pdf">https://mn.gov/mmb-stat/000/az/forecast/uncertainty/2021/december-report.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Low, S.A. 2021. &ldquo;Collaboration: A Condition for Advancing Federal and State Rural Development Research.&rdquo; Chapter 39, Investing in Rural Prosperity edited by Andrew Dumont and Paul Daniel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Available at:&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.stlouisfed.org/community-development/publications/invest-in-rural__;!!HXCxUKc!0f-4tbfRqhi1VZRCxnHuKJMZiwjk1REvf6l60ILrWeJ33FkIs7sC3ok4tIOZUXRqB4zy5LcXuUL21a1I0KM$">https://www.stlouisfed.org/community-development/publications/invest-in-rural</a></p><br /> <p>Gallardo, Roberto, and Brian Whitacre. 2022. &ldquo;A Granular Look at Internet Speeds and Demographic Groups: Implications for Digital Equity.&rdquo; <em>Southern Rural Development Center Digital Divide Policy Brief</em>.&nbsp; August.</p><br /> <p>Kenyon, Daphne, Bethany Paquin, Alannah Shute, Michael Bell, Mark Skidmore, Camila Alvayay, Torrejon, John Anderson, David Merriman, Semida Munteanu. 2021. &ldquo;A Deep Dive on South Carolina&rsquo;s Property Tax: Complex, Inequitable, and Uncompetitive.&rdquo; https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/other/deep-dive-south-carolinas-property-tax</p><br /> <p>Khalaf, C., Van Sandt, A., &amp; Boyles, B. 2022. &ldquo;Evaluating the Economic Impact of the Nonprofit Sector in Wyoming.&rdquo; Laramie, WY: Center for Business and Economic Analysis (CBEA). Prepared for the Align Team.</p><br /> <p>Kuhns, M. and S.A. Low. 2021. &ldquo;Missouri Health Care Availability and Outcomes Differ Regionally.&rdquo; University of Missouri Extension Guide, mx0056. Available at:&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/extension.missouri.edu/media/wysiwyg/Extensiondata/Pub/pdf/miscpubs/mx0056.pdf__;!!HXCxUKc!0f-4tbfRqhi1VZRCxnHuKJMZiwjk1REvf6l60ILrWeJ33FkIs7sC3ok4tIOZUXRqB4zy5LcXuUL2w6fcb2k$">https://extension.missouri.edu/media/wysiwyg/Extensiondata/Pub/pdf/miscpubs/mx0056.pdf</a></p><br /> <p>Meadowcroft, D., Ayoung Kim, A. Barefield, and J. Barnes, 2021, &ldquo;The State of Broadband Access in Mississippi.&rdquo; Extension Reports #P3653, <em>Mississippi State University Extension Service</em>. http://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/publications/publications/P3534_web.pdf</p><br /> <p>Rhoades, Claudia, Brian Whitacre, and Alison Davis.&nbsp; &ldquo;Higher Electronic Health Record (EHR) Functionality Lowers Urban Hospital Costs, But Rural Impacts Are Minimal.&rdquo;&nbsp; Policy Brief for <em>Federal Office of Rural Health Policy</em>. September 2021.</p><br /> <p>Rossi, J., S. Rocker and D. Thilmany. 2021. &ldquo;Exploring Awareness and Promotional Linkages to New Market Channels During COVID.&rdquo;&nbsp; Local Food System Response to COVID Series CFI-09. https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/consumer-food-insights/</p><br /> <p>Sanders, A., Low, S.A. &amp; M.C. White. 2021. &ldquo;Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Missouri Counties.&rdquo; University of Missouri Extension Guide dm302. January. Available at: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm302</p><br /> <p>Skidmore, Mark, Fernanda Alfaro, and Dusan Paredes. 2021. &ldquo;Assessment of Property Tax Reductions on Tax Delinquency, Tax Foreclosure, and Home Ownership.&rdquo;&nbsp; Cambridge, MA:&nbsp; <em>Lincoln Institute of Land Policy</em>. https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-papers/assessment-property-tax-reductions-tax-delinquency-tax-foreclosure-home</p><br /> <p>Spell, A. and S.A. Low. 2021. &ldquo;Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties.&rdquo; University of Missouri Extension. Available at:&nbsp;https://extension.missouri.edu/media/wysiwyg/Extensiondata/Pro/ExCEED/Docs/BroadbandImpactReport_Jun2021.pdf</p><br /> <p>Taylor, Gregory S., Rebekka Dudensing, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Jamie Rae Walker. 2021. &ldquo;What is Community Development?&rdquo; <em>Texas AgriLife Extension Service, The Texas A&amp;M University System</em>. College Station, TX, March.</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, Dawn. (Contributor to National report.) 2022. &ldquo;Healthy Food America and the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. How GusNIP Nutrition Incentives Work: A Theory of Change.&rdquo;&nbsp; https://www.nutritionincentivehub.org/resources-and-support/resources/reporting-evaluation/theory-of-change/nutrition-incentives.</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, D, H. Edmondson and M. Gill. 2022. &ldquo;The Changing Face of Food Retailing: Growth in Online Platforms during COVID.&rdquo; CSU REDI Report &ndash; April 2022. https://redi.colostate.edu/</p><br /> <p>Thilmany, D. and H. Edmondson. 2021. &ldquo;COVID-19 Food Channel Expenditure Shares: Trends Across Time and Consumer Perceptions.&rdquo; Local Food System Response to COVID Series CFI-07. https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/consumer-food-insights/</p><br /> <p>Williams, D., Van Sandt, A. 2022. &ldquo;Assessing Total Personal Income and its Components for the United States, Rocky Mountain Region, Wyoming, and its Counties (2001-2018).&rdquo; Forthcoming</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian, and Roberto Gallardo. 2022. &ldquo;Broadband Availability vs. Adoption: Which Matters More for Economic Development?&rdquo; <em>Southern Rural Development Center Digital Divide Policy Brief</em>. August.</p><br /> <p>Whitacre, Brian, and Christina Biedny. 2022. &ldquo;State Policies that Impact Rural Broadband Availability.&rdquo; <em>Southern Rural Development Center Digital Divide Policy Brief</em>. August.</p>

Impact Statements

1. The group has previously identified the following focus areas: (1) rural entrepreneurship; (2) health; and (3) housing. Across these focus areas, the group is interested in sustainable and inclusive/equitable development. In the past year, the group has made substantial contributions in grantsmanship, Extension, and to the academic literature and in disseminating the findings of these studies.

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Participants

Yong Chen, Oregon State University; Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin – Madison (McKenzie Boyce (graduate student), University of Wisconsin – Madison); Tom Harris, University of Nevada – Reno; Ayoung Kim, Mississippi State University, President; Dayton Lambert, Oklahoma State University; Nathan Palardy, University of Florida; Austin Sanders, Economic Research Service (USDA); Judy Stallmann, University of Missouri; Heather Stevens, West Virginia University; Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University; Phil Watson, University of Idaho; Andrew Van Leuven, Oklahoma State University; Anders Van Sandt, University of Wyoming, President-elect/Secretary;

Brief Summary of Minutes

Anders T. Van Sandt of the University of Wyoming was elected as the incoming president, and a secretary will be elected before Summer. Each participant gave a brief update about the work being done at their university and their collaborations related to NE 2249 with project members. The summary note is attached. After the updates, there was a discussion about opportunities going forward for the group. Heather Stephens, West Virginia University, provided an excellent example of collaboration integrating research and extension in the project (see her note). The discussion also included the possibility of engaging in collaborative work focused on data/new data metrics that would be accessible to all communities (counties). For the next meeting, We will meet in Washington, D.C., for the 2024 Southern Regional Science Association Meeting.

Accomplishments

<h2><strong>Grant Awards (project member collaborations)</strong></h2><br /> <p><strong>Stephen Goetz and Claudia Schmidt</strong>. Impact of female operated farms on selected rural economic development indicators (joint with <strong>Steve Deller</strong>).</p><br /> <p>Responding To America&rsquo;s Rural Health Challenge: Data-Driven Support for a Critical Era. $650,000 proposal under review at <em>USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture</em>. 2023-2027. Principal Investigator: <strong>Anders Van Sandt</strong> (with <strong>Craig W. Carpenter</strong>, Cris Meier, and Scott Loveridge).</p><br /> <p>Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center. $1,365,240 subcontract from Colorado State University. $50M awarded by <em>USDA Regional Food Business Centers</em>. 2023-2028. State Lead. <strong>Heather Stephens</strong>. (Co-lead Melissa Hemken at Central Wyoming College, PI <strong>Dawn Thilmany</strong> at Colorado State University).</p><br /> <p><strong>Heather Stephens</strong> recently received a NIFA grant for funding to study rural female and minority entrepreneurs.&nbsp; This is in collaboration with <strong>Penn State and University of Maine</strong>.&nbsp; It is an integrated project involving Extension, and involves our Extension at WVU as well. This project will start this year and last three years. The work with Penn State is an ongoing collaboration that has previously led to publications.</p><br /> <p>Northwest Mountain Regional Food Business Center. Regional Food Business Center proposal to the USDA Ag Marketing Service. $50 million. With Oregon State, U of Idaho, Arizona State, Montana State, New Mexico State, Washington State and U of Wyoming.&nbsp; $50,000,000.&nbsp; Proposed for July 2023-2028. <strong>Dawn Thilmany</strong> (with <strong>Anders van Sandt</strong> on committee).</p><br /> <p>Development and Expansion of a State-Specific Economic Impact Calculator for Nutrition Incentive Projects. Grant with Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition Incentives. $82,000. 2021-23. <strong>Dawn Thilmany</strong> with A. Bauman and B. Jablonski, <strong>Phil Watson</strong>.</p><br /> <p>Assessing Sustainable Development Goals: Six Cross-Nationally Comparable Agri-Food Pilot Studies. $425,000 Cooperative Agreement with USDA Economic Research Service and Cornell University. 2021-24. <strong>Dawn Thilmany. Craig Carpenter and Phil Watson</strong> on the committee received subawards from this project.</p><br /> <p>Storrs Agricultural Experimental Station grant to analyze the entrepreneurial networks of small- and medium-sized agribusinesses in the six New England states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island) and assess how structures differ by environment (urban, peri-urban, or rural) and socially disadvantaged status. 3-year grant. <strong>Emma Bojinova</strong>. with collaborators <strong>Cristina Connolly</strong> (Co-PI) and <strong>Jason Entsminger</strong> (Co-PI). Our project has an extension component &ndash; developing an Extension curriculum surrounding the importance of networking and successful network attributes. This project contributes to the CAHNR&rsquo;s strategic priorities of ensuring a vibrant and sustainable agricultural industry and food supply, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.</p><br /> <p>Under the leadership of <strong>Claudia Schmidt</strong> (Penn State University) and in collaboration with colleagues at University of Vermont, Oklahoma State University, Penn State University, University of Maine (<strong>Jason Entsminger</strong>), and private entity Cultivating Tourism, a NIFA AFRI-funded project has begun publishing a 51-fact sheet series with state and national data on agritourism operations in the U.S.</p><br /> <p>(submitted)</p><br /> <p><strong>Jason S. Entsminger</strong>, the anticipated new award from USDA NIFA led by <strong>Heather Stephens</strong> (WVU), along with Penn State University, on non-farm, rural entrepreneurship among minority populations.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Grant Awards (other)</strong></h2><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Diane Charlton</strong>. NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant with co-authors Amanda Countryman and Dale Manning to investigate the effects of trade policy on rural employment and wages.</p><br /> <p>SSMART Forestry: Paving the way from Forest Restoration to Cross-Laminated Timber ($4.4 million). Funding agency: U.S. Economic Development Administration. Project period: September 2023&ndash;September 2026. PI: Chung, Woodam (chungw), Co-PIs: Nathaniel Anderson, Francisca Belart, <strong>Yong Chen</strong>,&nbsp; Raffaele De Amicis, John Hogland, Jesse Johnson, Jay Kim, Kevin Lyons, Lech Muszynski, Nadia Streletskaya.</p><br /> <p>Anders, John, and <strong>Craig Wesley Carpenter</strong>. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Measure the Direct, Intergenerational, and Interactive Impacts of Redlining and Education.&rdquo; Russell Sage Foundation. $170,881.</p><br /> <p><strong>Carpenter, Craig Wesley</strong>, John Anders, Marcus Bernard, Trey Malone, and Charles M. Tolbert. 2022-2025. &ldquo;Documenting Discrimination and Researching Policy: Racial Inequality and Economic Opportunity in Rural America 1920-2020.&rdquo; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $650,000.</p><br /> <p><strong>Carpenter, Craig Wesley</strong>, Charles Tolbert, and Rick Peterson. 2018-2023. &ldquo;Leveraging Big Data to Investigate and Support &lsquo;Vetrepreneurs.&rsquo;&rdquo; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $500,000.</p><br /> <p>McCarl, Bruce, Chengcheng Fei, <strong>Craig Wesley Carpenter</strong>, and Ronald Sands. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Processing Facility Movement and Food Dollar.&rdquo; USDA Economic Research Service. $75,000.</p><br /> <p>Lotspeich-Yadao, Michael, <strong>Craig Wesley Carpenter</strong>, and Charles Tolbert. 2021-2023. &ldquo;Data-Driven Extension Programming for Rural Veteran Workforce Reintegration.&rdquo; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $125,933, awarded and returned due to postdoctoral fellow (Lotspeich-Yadao) faculty placement.</p><br /> <p>Economic Development Administration, US Department of Commerce. &ldquo;University of Wisconsin EDA University Center.&rdquo; PIs: Tessa Conroy, Matt Kures, Kristen Runge and <strong>Steven Deller<em>.</em></strong> Duration: August 2021 &ndash; July 2025. Amount: $750,000.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Economic Development Administration, US Department of Commerce. &ldquo;University of Wisconsin EDA University Center, COVID-19 Response.&rdquo; PIs: Tessa Conroy, Matt Kures, Kristen Runge and <strong>Steven Deller<em>.</em></strong> Duration: September 2020 &ndash; August 2022. Amount: $300,000.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. &ldquo;Labor Market Equity and Entrepreneurial Outcomes for Disadvantaged Populations.&rdquo; PIs: Tessa Conroy and <strong>Steven Deller. </strong>Duration: September 30, 2022 -- September 30, 2024. Amount: $20,000.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. &ldquo;Community Economic Analysis for Rural Wisconsin Communities (CEA-RWC).&rdquo; PIs: Brandon Hofstedt and <strong>Steven Deller.&nbsp; </strong>Duration: July 1, 2022 &ndash; June 30, 2024. Amount: $150,000.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. &ldquo;Rural Wisconsin Entrepreneurship.&rdquo; PIs: Brandon Hofstedt and Tessa Conroy, Co-PIs:&nbsp; <strong>Steven Deller</strong>, Matt Kures and Kristin Runge. Duration: November 1, 2022 &ndash; October 31, 2026. Amount: $1,000,000.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Jason S. Entsminger</strong>. NIFA-funded project involving the University of Missouri, University of Maine, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.</p><br /> <p>Resilient Biomass-Combined Heat and Power Systems for Rural Communities, Co-PI (USDA-NIFA, $1,000,000, 2020-2024) Lead by Mohammad Maruffuzzaman (<strong>Ayoung Kim</strong>, Co-PI)</p><br /> <p>The Racial Wealth Gap, Persistent Poverty and Heirs&rsquo; Property: Analysis, Connections, and Solutions,<br /> Co-PI (USDA-NIFA, $499,997, 2021-2024) Lead by John Green, (<strong>Ayoung Kim</strong>, Co-PI)</p><br /> <p><strong>C&auml;zilia Loibl, </strong>Ohio Housing Finance Agency, 2021-2023; Huntington National Bank, 2022-2024; Social Security Administration Retirement and Disability Research Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security, 2022-2023; Kathleen Kelly Seed Grants program, 2021-2023</p><br /> <p>Loveridge, Scott, <strong>Mark Skidmore</strong>, et al. 2022-2026. &ldquo;Measuring and Mapping Rural Inflation.&rdquo; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $800,000.</p><br /> <p><strong>Low, Sarah</strong> et al. The Growing Rural Health Disadvantage: Causes and Consequences for Rural Labor Markets. 2021-2023. USDA Economic Research Service, non-assistance cooperative agreement. $145,000.</p><br /> <p><strong>Low, Sarah</strong> et al. State and Regional Farm Financial Analysis. 2021-2024. USDA Office of the Chief Economist, Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers. $1,425,000.</p><br /> <p>Cross-State Heterogeneity of Farm-Scale Hemp Production Costs. Subcontract with University of Kentucky and Cooperative Agreement with the USDA Ag Marketing Service. 2022-2023. $360,000. <strong>Dawn Thilmany </strong>with T. Marks, D. Mooney and R. Hill.</p><br /> <p>Planning and Technical Support to Diversify Economic Opportunities in Colorado: A Technical Assistance Project. Proposal to the Economic Development Administration. Funded for $575,000. <strong>Dawn Thilmany </strong>with S. Weiler, S. Shrake, A. Sintas, R. Hill and in cooperation with Delta County. Fall 2020-September</p><br /> <p><strong>Whitacre, Brian</strong>. 2022-2023 &ldquo;Library Telehealth Boxes in Persistent Poverty Rural Oklahoma Counties.&rdquo; Oklahoma State Department of Health. $150,000.</p><br /> <p><strong>Whitacre, Brian</strong>. 2022-2023. &ldquo;Impacts of Broadband Speed on Rural Business Dynamics.&rdquo;&nbsp; USDA &ndash; Economic Research Service.&nbsp; $20,000. Funding Christina Biedny (Ph.D. student).</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Extension Programs (project member collaborations)</strong></h2><br /> <p>A collaboration of research and Extension professionals at Penn State University (<strong>Claudia Schmidt</strong>), University of Maine (<strong>Jason S. Entsminger</strong>), Utah State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Vermont, and private entity Cultivating Tourism held an interactive webinar under as part of the National Extension Tourism Network to convene the agritourism support services community of practice in the U.S. Follow-ups to the webinar have included the contributions to three conference presentations among the collaboration with another under submission and developed an interactive digital resource map.</p><br /> <p>The EOM (Economic Opportunity Maps) tool: <strong>Anderson Van Sandt</strong> created with<strong> Craig Carpenter</strong>, allows users to identify opportunities and barriers to entrepreneurs and businesses within local, specific industries. While the tool is still available, we are working with <strong>Phil Watson</strong> to try to produce unsuppressed establishment counts that can be used to update the tool.</p><br /> <p>Agritourism Extension in the United States. Agritourism collaborative and summary of working Submitted to the Applied Economics Teaching Resources Special Issue on Extension. (<strong>Dawn Thilmany</strong> with <strong>C. Schmidt</strong>, C. Barbieri, L. Dickes, L. Chase, S. Tomas, D. Singh-Knights, P. Leff, H. George, R. Callahan, E. Rilla-Laherty, D. Lamie and S. Cornelisse)</p><br /> <p><strong>Entsminger, Jason</strong>, John Green, Rachel Welborn, Renee Wiatt, Zuzanna Bednarikova, Riana Gayle, Yuxuan Pan, and <strong>Stephan J. Goetz</strong>. (February 2023). &ldquo;Comprehensive Summary of National Rural Development Stakeholder Listening Sessions.&rdquo; Regional Rural Development Centers. <a href="https://www.usu.edu/rrdc/listening-sessions">https://www.usu.edu/rrdc/listening-sessions</a></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <h2><strong>Extension Programs (other)</strong></h2><br /> <p>Ohio State University Extension Housing Counseling Program (Director: <strong>Loibl, C&auml;zilia)</strong>: HUD approved housing counseling agency having 14 HUD approved housing counselors serving the State of Ohio.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>CSU continues to establish a new Rural Engagement Initiative and <strong>Dawn Thilmany </strong>co-lead the work focused on Thriving Economy / Food and Agriculture. There was 6 new hires made in the past year, and two more starting in summer 2023 to re-establish regional networks for rural, community and economic development throughout Colorado. In addition to continuing to make progress rebuilding community relationships and communicating the increased capacity to work in Economic development alongside our Vibrant Community partners (FLTI, Engaged Centers), we are centering rural initiative work in three areas:</p><br /> <ol><br /> <li>Targeted Technical Assistance for food/ag enterprises, sectors and community initiatives</li><br /> <li>Co-Creating Entrepreneurial Programs with Community colleges and producer associations</li><br /> <li>Data platforms and decision tools to guide market strategies and new investments</li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>In addition, we have a couple of other projects at the intersection of food and economic development we continue to partner on.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>The Wyoming Integrated Statistics Environment (WISE)<strong>, Anders Van Sandt</strong></p><br /> <p>Once completed, WISE will improve local strategic planning, increase decision makers&rsquo; capacity, and assist with business births or branch location. WISE is an online interactive map where stakeholders can access timely and nuanced data on their community. The tool includes economic, demographic, health, tourism, financial, land, and many other types of data. WISE automatically updates new data once available, is financially sustainable, and establishes partnerships across state agencies and organizations.</p>

Publications

<h2><strong>Journal Articles (project member collaborations) </strong></h2><br /> <p><strong>Carpenter, C. W.,</strong> <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, and Loveridge, S. (2022). &ldquo;Food and Agricultural Industry Locational Determinants Research: Aggregation Bias and Size Measurement in the Agricultural Support Industry.&rdquo; <em>Agricultural and Resource Economics Review</em>, 51(3), 558-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2022.21</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Carpenter, C. W.,</strong> <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, Dudensing, R., Loveridge, S., and Niehm, L. (2022). &ldquo;The Economic Opportunity Mapping (EOM) Tool.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Extension</em>, forthcoming.</p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong>, <strong>Whitacre, Brian</strong>, and Conroy, Tessa. 2022. &ldquo;Rural Broadband Speeds and Business Startup Rates.&rdquo; <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>. 104(3):999-1025.</p><br /> <p><strong>Goetz, S. J.</strong>, Heaton, C., Imran, M., Pan, Y., Tian, Z., <strong>Schmidt, C.</strong>, Qazi, U., Olfi, F., and Mitra, P. 2022. Food Insufficiency and Twitter Emotions During a Pandemic. <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13258">https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13258</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Halstead, John M.</strong>, <strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong>, and Leyden, Kevin M. 2022. &ldquo;Social Capital and Community Development: Where do We Go from Here?&rdquo; <em>Community Development</em>. 53(1):92 108.</p><br /> <p>Han, L., <strong>Goetz, S. J.</strong>, Eades, D., <strong>Entsminger, J. E.</strong>, and Arbogast, D. 2022. An Early Assessment of COVID-19&rsquo;s Impact on Tourism in U.S. Counties. <em>Tourism Economics</em>.</p><br /> <p>Loveridge, Scott, <strong>Mark Skidmore</strong>, Robert Shupp, Paula Miller, Courtney Cuthbertson, and <strong>Stephan J. Goetz</strong>. 2023. &ldquo;Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma.&rdquo; <em>The Journal of Rural Health</em>, jrh.12757. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12757</p><br /> <p><strong><em>Low, S.A.</em></strong>, Rahe M. and <strong><em>A. Van Leuven</em></strong><em>.</em> 2022. &ldquo;Has COVID-19 made rural areas more attractive places to live? Survey evidence from northwest Missouri.&rdquo; <em>Regional Science, Policy and Practice</em>. doi:10.1111/rsp3.12543</p><br /> <p><strong>Palardy, N.</strong>, M. Costanigro, J. Cannon, <strong>D. Thilmany</strong>, J. Berning, J. Bayham and J. Callaway. 2023. Beer Sales in Grocery and Convenience Stores: A Glass Half-Full for Craft Brewers? <em>Regional Studies</em>. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2166914</p><br /> <p><strong>Schmidt, C.</strong>, L. Chase, C. Barbieri, E. Rilla-Laherty, D. Singh-Knights, <strong>D. Thilmany</strong>, S. Tomas, L. Dickes, S. Cornelisse, D. Lamie, R. Callahan, H. George and P. Leff. 2022. Agritourism Extension in the United States. <em>Applied Economics Teaching Resources</em>. Special Issue on Extension. Summer 2022. <a href="https://www.aaea.org/UserFiles/file/AETR_2022_005RRProofFinal1_v1.pdf">https://www.aaea.org/UserFiles/file/AETR_2022_005RRProofFinal1_v1.pdf</a>.</p><br /> <p><strong>Schmidt, Claudia</strong>, Zheng Tian, <strong>Stephan J. Goetz</strong>, Chadley R. Hollas, and Lisa Chase. 2023. &ldquo;Agritourism and Direct Sales Clusters in the United States.&rdquo; <em>Agricultural and Resource Economics Review</em> 52 (1): 168&ndash;88. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2023.1">https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2023.1</a>.</p><br /> <p>Tian, Z., <strong>Schmidt, C.</strong>, <strong>Goetz, S. J.</strong>, et al. 2022. The Role of Community Food Services in Reducing U.S. Food Insufficiency in the COVID-19 Pandemic. <em>Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics</em>, 47(3), 18. DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313316 (selected as best paper published in 2022)</p><br /> <p><strong>Van Leuven, A.</strong>, Hill, E. and <strong>Low, S.A.</strong> 2022. &ldquo;Which Side of Town? How Proximity to Critical Survival Factors Affects Rural Business Longevity. <em>Growth &amp; Change</em>. Online first, pp. 1-34. doi.org/10.1111/grow.12652</p><br /> <p><strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, <strong>Carpenter, C. W</strong>., Tolbert, C. 2022. &ldquo;Decomposing local bank impacts with demand thresholds.&rdquo; <em>The Annals of Regional Science</em>, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-</p><br /> <p><strong>Watson, Philip</strong>, and <strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong> 2022. &ldquo;Tourism and Economic Resilience.&rdquo; <em>Tourism Economics</em>. 28(5):1193-1215</p><br /> <p>(under review)</p><br /> <p><strong>Yong Chen</strong>, <strong>Bigelow, D.P.</strong> and M. Jodlowski. 2022. "Self-reporting and aggregation bias in Ricardian climate impacts: Evidence from observed farmland sales." Second round of review at <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em></p><br /> <p><strong>Yong Chen</strong>, Wing, H., D.P. <strong>Bigelow</strong>, and K.B. Fuller. 2022. "Does temporary land retirement promote organic adoption? Evidence from the Conservation Reserve Program." Under review at <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Journal Articles (other)</strong></h2><br /> <p>Arbogast, D., Eades, D., <strong>Goetz, S. J.</strong>, and Pan, Y. 2022. &ldquo;Extension and Tourism: Previous Efforts, Current Trends, and the Future.&rdquo; <em>Journal of Extension, 60</em>(2). ISBN/ISSN: 1077-5315</p><br /> <p><strong>Bigelow, D.P.</strong> and T. Kuethe. 2023. "The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances." <em>Regional Science and Urban Economics </em>98: 103848.</p><br /> <p>Canfield, C., <strong>Low, S.A.</strong>, Golnick, C. and D. Davis. 2022. &ldquo;Stakeholder Engagement Can Improve Broadband Impact Evaluations.&rdquo; <em>Choices</em>, 37(3).</p><br /> <p><strong>Chen, Yong</strong>, Lan Xue, Jaeho Jung, Myungjin Kim. &ldquo;Administrative Cost of US Counties and Local Context Dependence&rdquo;, Accepted at <em>Review of Regional Studies</em>.</p><br /> <p>Chengm H., R. Feuz, and <strong>D.M. Lambert</strong>. 2023. &ldquo;A comparison of best-worst scaling marginal and rank methods.&rdquo; A<em>pplied Economics Letters</em>, 1-4</p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong> 2022. &ldquo;Access to Health Care and Rural Worker Productivity." <em>Applied </em></p><br /> <p><em>Economic Perspectives and Policy.</em> 44(2):722-741.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong>, Conroy, Tessa, and Kures, Matthrew. (2022). &ldquo;Immigration and Rates of</p><br /> <p>Entrepreneurship in Large U.S. Communities.&rdquo; <em>Local Development &amp; Society</em>. (published online</p><br /> <p>June 10, 2022).</p><br /> <p>Drost, Madeleine, Anastasia Snyder, Michael Betz, and <strong>C&auml;zilia Loibl</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Financial strain and loneliness in older adults.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economics Letters</em>, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2152421</p><br /> <p>Ge, H., <strong>Goetz, S. J.</strong>, Cleary, R., Yi, J., and Gomez, M. I. 2022. &ldquo;Facility locations in the fresh produce supply chain: An integration of optimization and empirical methods. &rdquo; <em>International Journal of Production Economics, 249</em>. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108534">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108534</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Harris, T</strong>, and E, Grumstrup. (accepted). &ldquo;Alternative Public Land Management Policy Impacts: Ranch and County Level.&rdquo; <em>Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.</em></p><br /> <p>Haurin, Donald, Stephanie Moulton, and <strong>C&auml;zilia Loibl</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;The relationship of financial stress with the timing of the initial claim of U.S. Social Security retirement income.&rdquo; <em>Journal of the Economics of Ageing</em>, Volume 21, Issue February, Article number 100362. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100362&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Herchenbach, J., Briggeman, B., Bergtold, J., Shanoyan, A. <strong>Low, S.A.</strong>, and Miller, B. (accepted). &ldquo;A Qualitative Assessment of Farmer Director Skills in Agricultural Cooperatives.&rdquo; <em>International Food &amp; Agribusiness Management Review.</em></p><br /> <p>Isley, C. and <strong>Low, S.A.</strong> (accepted) &ldquo;Meat Processing Plant Survival: The Role of Plant and Regional Characteristics.&rdquo; <em>Journal of the Agricultural &amp; Applied Economics Association</em>.</p><br /> <p>Isley, C. and <strong>S.A. Low</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Impact of broadband availability and adoption on rural employment during COVID-19.&rdquo; <em>Telecommunications Policy</em>, 46(7). 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102310</p><br /> <p>Keeler, Zachary T. and <strong>Heather M. Stephens</strong>. 2022. The capitalization of metro rail access in urban housing markets.&rdquo; <em>Real Estate Economics</em>. DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12411&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Kim, Ayoung</strong>, J. Lim, and A. Colletta. 2023. &ldquo;How Regional Economic Structure Matters in the Era of COVID-19: Resilience Capacity of U.S. states.&rdquo; <em>The Annals of Regional Science</em>, 70: 15-185, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01134-w.</p><br /> <p><strong>Lim, SH</strong> and C Wachenheim. 2022. &ldquo;Predicted Enrollment in Alternative Attribute Conservation Reserve Program Contracts.&rdquo; <em>Land Use Policy</em>, 117 (2022), 106090.&nbsp; <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1qIznvE1xLQcccLsm9FZLIBIqdbUJu_bFCyN2v3Q3Stk_o8XqmtT-DSlavmWJF0pC87cbuwCEJBTakOmvO3Ems_YDAgJxfPfGDjcZOcUeVsSyTX2wKbRckaTuFlONvr49xEfoK8sVVktRa4IPkpLmAU0kD-IJOWiwYSJcycRXw5Ol1uN-JAEhx1SBxUF2ZovG7bUdaZ0ytB6SdO3FSLltyUn9KaI0Efu8FD_js8RGr-qiadRn5cZ9rEo8vJXz08c7HDiPm3x3lXaKFMBKNftt7geMy9I8NwRN_PXlm1gGf737T4-6jWoCpUNLbheTrHqB/https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.landusepol.2022.106090">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106090</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Lim, SH</strong>, Y Ge, JM Jacobs and X Jia. 2022. &ldquo;Measuring the Economic Benefits of Advanced Technology Use for River Flood Forecasting.&rdquo; Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12781. <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1fNxSbTUJ-LMFDVl0Ovq1flidLyOFm99OxPynF9zPJgO1xN3G-kH--Ys_OLqPENGY3DtF0xB9nGeiq9bSCnzRT5mvNmbNrl4mYoeR3RSKcZa-NzngQFpxHGNwxlkum9hs6ckgfhTxGiLj2Uq1Or1Aow5gXni9jHdiVAqRGG_VClwQoYNWoZncj417CBTROiQkMMfEzR27htok834rfFJU3LXxjx-5w3_cIZtFsnGE-fkZ4pvR4GVBS_YSt_rnXJjNCSDWLqvSrXDS0ZBm2M8VYGVAx-92D0TEO0wmshe1Ahm67iq5K-YxG3R8Wrlo1_R6/https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1111%2Fjfr3.12781">https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12781</a></p><br /> <p>Lin, T, Z Lin, <strong>SH Lim</strong>, X Jia and X Chu. 2022. &ldquo;A Spatial Agent-Based Model for Hydraulic Fracturing Water Distribution.&rdquo; <em>Frontiers in Environmental Science</em>, 10:1025559. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1025559. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1025559">https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1025559</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Loibl, C&auml;zilia</strong>, Alec Rhodes, Stephanie Moulton, Donald Haurin, and Chrisse Edmunds1. 2021. &ldquo;Food insecurity among older adults in the U.S.: The role of mortgage borrowing.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em>, Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 549-574, DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13219&nbsp; "Featured Article"</p><br /> <p><strong>Loibl, C&auml;zilia</strong>, Madeleine Drost, Martijn Huisman, Bianca Suanet, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Simon McNair, and Barbara Summers. 2022. &ldquo;Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands.&rdquo; <em>Ageing and Society</em>. Volume 42, Issue 12, p. 2869-2891 DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X21000325&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Loibl,</strong> <strong>C&auml;zilia</strong>, Stephanie Moulton, Donald Haurin and Chrisse Edmunds. 2022. &ldquo;The role of consumer and mortgage borrowing for financial stress.&rdquo; Aging and Mental Health, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 116-129. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2020.1843000</p><br /> <p><strong>Loibl, C&auml;zilia</strong>, W&auml;ndi Bruine de Bruin, Barbara Summers, Simon McNair, and Pieter Verhallen. 2022. &ldquo;Which financial stressors are linked to food insecurity among older adults in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands?&rdquo; <em>Food Security</em>, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 533-556, DOI: 10.1007/s12571-021-01206-3</p><br /> <p>Moulton, Stephanie, Alec Rhodes, Donald Haurin, <strong>Loibl, C&auml;zilia</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence.&rdquo; <em>Social Science and Medicine</em>. Volume 314. Issue: December, Article number 115437, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115437; CFP Board's ACCI Financial Planning Paper Award</p><br /> <p>Moulton, Stephanie, J. Michael Collins, <strong>C&auml;zilia Loibl</strong>, Donald Haurin, and Julia Brown1. 2022. &ldquo;Property tax compliance and reverse mortgages: Using nudges to improve the market.&rdquo; <em>National Tax Journal</em>. Volume 75, Issue 1, p. 33-59, DOI: 10.1086/717160</p><br /> <p>Poursina, D., B.W. Brorsen, and <strong>D.M. Lambert</strong>. 2023. &ldquo;Nearly Ds-optimal assigned location design for a linear model with spatially varying coefficients.&rdquo; <em>Spatial Statistics</em>. 53, 100727</p><br /> <p><strong>Stephens, Heather M.</strong>, Elizabeth A. Mack, and John Mann. 2022. &ldquo;Broadband and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Assessment of the Connection between Broadband Availability and New Business Activity across the United States.&rdquo; <em>Telematics and Informatics</em>. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2022.101873.</p><br /> <p>Conroy, T. and <strong>P. Watson</strong>. 2023. &ldquo;Overeducation, natural amenities, and entrepreneurship.&rdquo; <em>Small Business Economics</em>.</p><br /> <p>Valentin-Silvico, J., Canfield, C., <strong>Low, S.A.</strong>, and Gollnick, C. 2023. &ldquo;Evaluating the Impact of Broadband Access and Internet Use in a Small Underserved Rural Community&rdquo; <em>Telecommunications Policy</em>, 47(4). ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102499</p><br /> <p>Yun, S.D. and <strong>Ayoung Kim</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: A Myth or Mismeasurement?.&rdquo; <em>Applied Economics Letters</em>. 29(10): 861-866. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1896667">https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1896667</a>.</p><br /> <p>Winfree, J. and <strong>P. Watson</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Changes in distilled spirits sales and preferences during COVID-19.&rdquo; <em>Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs</em>. 83 (6)</p><br /> <p>Watson, and J. Winfree. 2022. &ldquo;Should we use antitrust policies on big agriculture?&rdquo; <em>Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy</em> 44 (3), 1313-1326</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Other Publications</strong></h2><br /> <p><strong>Claudia Schmidt, </strong>Zheng Tian, <strong>Stephan J. Goetz, </strong>Chadley R. Hollas, and Lisa Chase</p><br /> <p>Penn State News release was published on April 19: &ldquo;<a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/opening-farms-visitors-boosts-nearby-farms-direct-sales-and-vice-versa">Opening farms to visitors boosts nearby farms&rsquo; direct sales, and vice versa</a>&rdquo; available at: <a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/opening-farms-visitors-boosts-nearby-farms-direct-sales-and-vice-versa/">https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/opening-farms-visitors-boosts-nearby-farms-direct-sales-and-vice-versa/</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Kim, E., <strong>Ayoung Kim</strong>, and I. Moon. 2022. &ldquo;Government Intervention in Real Estate Market: Is Tax Reform Effective in Seoul Housing Market?.&rdquo; In <em>Theory and History in Regional Perspective</em>, edited by M. Kawano, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, and Y Higano, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 56: 221-243, Springer, Singapore, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6695-7_12">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6695-7_12</a></p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p><strong>Ayoung Kim</strong> and B.S. Waldorf. 2023. &ldquo;The Index of Relative Rurality (IRR): US County Data for 2020, Version 1.0.0 [Data set], Zenodo, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7675745.</p><br /> <p>Pipa, Anthony F., <strong>Heather M. Stephens</strong>, and Natalie Geismar. 2022. &ldquo;Defining distress: Lessons from the Federally Chartered Regional Commissions.&rdquo; The Brookings Institution. <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1Jk52LcYtnOQNuo37ffNV6XwZTjUcwyVA-1bmzyakJ51L-uF4m5KNqdRdiWyCRrZpt8oLpEm8v26oprF2evwmXKos9elam-UZnQMYzVc9LszS2qBMhsGItjnjKqEAHLpv4KluXie3nmocCGz72LJrQLqvAxrwyqxEii9PpVLC0yfwAPnMewHo-QFSwJTlEvHvtFOBy8LLHLZnRlyYMkHN335qOt4-43Zn4QQQFyvpsU189c9kZYGronaDaYWBcrB82Ds0WRvmt4tZid9_tNuiETy7mRA_LQ9uenGDZZKLY_TdgtZ1aoQhDZHdlIrP3ISt/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brookings.edu%2Fresearch%2Fdefining-distress-lessons-from-the-federally-chartered-regional-commissions%2F">https://www.brookings.edu/research/defining-distress-lessons-from-the-federally-chartered-regional-commissions/</a></p><br /> <p><strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic Development.&rdquo; By Silvia Cerisola. 2019. pp. 208. ISBN: 978 1 78897 528 5. <em>Growth &amp; Change</em>, 54(1), 346-347.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Extension Articles (project member collaborations)</strong></h2><br /> <p>None</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <h2><strong>Extension Articles (other)</strong></h2><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Aadland, D., <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, and Nevels, S.. 2023. Evaluating the Economic Impact of Providing Municipal Water to Laramie County Housing Developments. Laramie, WY: Center for Business and Economic Analysis (CBEA). Prepared for Cheyenne Mayor&rsquo;s Office.</p><br /> <p>&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Bastian, C., <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, and Coupal, R.. 2022. &ldquo;2021 Wyoming Comprehensive Off-Road Vehicle Recreation Report.&rdquo; University of Wyoming, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Prepared for the State of Wyoming, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. October 2022.</p><br /> <ol start="2"><br /> <li>Rossi and <strong>D. Thilmany</strong>. COVID-19 2.0: Exploring Awareness and Promotional Linkages to New Market Channels. Local Food System Response to COVID Series CFI-2.01. August 2022. <a href="https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/consumer-food-insights/">https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/consumer-food-insights/</a></li><br /> </ol><br /> <p>Chicola, R., and <strong>T. Harris</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;State Comparison of Payment in Lieu of Taxes for 2020&rdquo;. Fact Sheet 21-107.</p><br /> <p><strong>Deller, Steven C.</strong>, Conroy, Tessa, and Kures, Matthrew. (2022). &ldquo;Immigration and Rates of</p><br /> <p>Entrepreneurship in Large U.S. Communities.&rdquo; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Local Development &amp; Society</span>. (published online</p><br /> <p>June 10, 2022).</p><br /> <p>Hansen, K., <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong> .2023. Wyoming Perceptions of Extreme Weather Events. CowCountry, Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Forthcoming, 2023.</p><br /> <p>Hansen, K., <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, Hewlett, J.. 2023. Calculation of Appropriate Risk Premiums for SCPP Enrollment. Prepared for Wyoming State Engineers Office. April, 2023.</p><br /> <p><strong>Harris, T.</strong>, S. Emm, C. Bishop, B. Freeman, K. Emm, and B. Borden. 2022 &ldquo; Yerington Paiute Tribe&nbsp; Tribal College Feasibility and Economic Impact Report&rdquo;. University Center Technical Report, UCED 2021/22-12.</p><br /> <p><strong>Harris, T.</strong> 2022. &ldquo;A Trade Area Analysis for Lincoln County Retail and Service Markets, 2020&rdquo;. University Center Technical Report, UCED 2022/23-05.</p><br /> <p><strong>Harris, T.</strong>, M. Tosun, J. Hasting, V. Scavacini, P. Bowers, and E. Olosinki. 2022. &ldquo;Southern Nevada Asset Map Report Phase 1&rdquo;. Clark County Education Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.</p><br /> <p><strong>Harris, T.</strong>, M. Tosun, J. Hasting, and R, Chicola. 2023. &ldquo;Aligning Southern Nevada&rsquo;s K-16 Education-to-Workforce Pipeline for a New Economy&rdquo;. Report to Clark County Education Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.</p><br /> <p>Isley, C. and <strong>S.A. Low</strong>. 2022. Different Factors are Associated with Small and Large Meat Processor Survival. A Riff from RaFF, 1(5), August. Available at:https://ruralandfarmfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Plant-Survival_v1i5_published8.31.222.pdf</p><br /> <p>Isley, C., Nichols, Z. and <strong>S.A. Low</strong>. 2022. How Broadband Adoption and Availability Impacted Rural Employment During COVID-19. University of Missouri Extension Guide, dm602.Available at: <a href="https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm602">https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm602</a></p><br /> <p>Martin, <strong>Heather</strong>, Rose Hayden-Smith, and Kristen Devlin. 2023. &ldquo;The NET Effect: Members of the National Extension Tourism network help raise the bar in sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation.&rdquo; Extension Foundation. <a href="https://extensiontourism.net/net-e-zine-highlights-successes-presents-case-studies/">https://extensiontourism.net/net-e-zine-highlights-successes-presents-case-studies/</a></p><br /> <p>Meier, C., Ward, L., <strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>, Schneider, S., Gayle, R.. 2022. &ldquo;Western Region Health &amp; Wellness Programming Efforts: Qualitative Results from a Three-Part Listening Session.&rdquo; Paper 2295. Utah State University Extension. <a href="https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/2295/">https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/2295/</a></p><br /> <p>Mooney, M. S.H. Kim, M. Sullins and D<strong>. Thilmany</strong>.&nbsp; 2022. The Ownership of Enterprise in Colorado: Agricultural and Community-Based Cooperatives. REDI Report &ndash; December 2022. <a href="https://redi.colostate.edu/">https://redi.colostate.edu/</a></p><br /> <p>Dethloff, N, <strong>Van Leuven, A. J.</strong>, B. Courtney. 2022. Customer Service Basics for Agricultural Entrepreneurs. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. AGEG-920</p><br /> <p>Spell, A., Jacobs, K.A. and <strong>S.A. Low</strong>. 2022. The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agricultural Economy. CoBank &amp; MU Extension report. Available at:https://www.cobank.com/knowledge-exchange/general/the-importance-of-off-farmincome-to-the-agricultural-economy</p><br /> <p><strong>Thilmany, D. A.</strong> Survey Overview. Exploring the Start-Up Dynamics of Food Businesses Using Shared Kitchens. Shared Kitchen Survey Insights. USDA Ag Marketing Services Report. August 2022. https://localfoodeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Shared-Kitchen-Survey-Insights_Survey-Overview-1.pdf</p><br /> <p><strong>Thilmany, D.</strong> Business Viability and Growth. Exploring the Start-Up Dynamics of Food Businesses Using Shared Kitchens. Shared Kitchen Survey Insights. USDA Ag Marketing Services Report. August 2022. https://localfoodeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Shared-Kitchen-Survey-Insights_Business-Viability-and-Growth-1.pdf</p><br /> <p><strong>Van Leuven, A.J.</strong>. 2023. Participants in Community and Economic Development. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. AGEG-950</p><br /> <p><strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong> and Daniels, J.. 2022. &ldquo;State Health Improvement Forum Analysis of Deliberative Dialogue Forums.&rdquo; University of Wyoming Extension Service. Prepared for the State of Wyoming, Department of Health. October, 2022.</p><br /> <p><strong>Van Sandt, A.</strong>. 2022. &ldquo;Big Horn County Socioeconomic Profile.&rdquo; University of Wyoming Extension Service. Prepared for Big Horn County Commissioner&rsquo;s Office. July 31, 2022.</p><br /> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>Yong Chen</strong> Draft article on farmland values in Oregon titled &ldquo;An analysis of recent survey-based farmland values in Oregon&rdquo; submitted for publication in Digger Magazine, an extension magazine published by the Oregon Association of Nurseries.</p>

Impact Statements

1. The group has previously identified the following focus areas: (1) rural entrepreneurship; (2) health; and (3) housing. Across these focus areas, the group is interested in sustainable and inclusive/equitable development. In the past year, the group has made substantial contributions in grantsmanship, Extension, and to the academic literature and in disseminating the findings of these studies. The network built in NE 1749 (predecessor of NE 2249) across the scholars has been further expanded for research and extension activities in the multistate project. We have continued to build stronger synergies across rural development scholars, including new members in NE 2249. As result of collaborative work in the multistate project, the group has published 17 publications (out of 49), awarded 9 grants (out of 31), and organized 4 extension activities (out of 7). 17 universities (out of 25 universities that participated in the multistate project) has been involved in the collaborative work (Colorado State University, Michigan State University, Oklahoma State University, Oregon State University, Penn State University, University of Connecticut, University of Florida, University of Idaho, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, University of Main, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, West Virginia University). We have synthesized results across states and across objectives and identified policy implications and continued outreach activities. For the next year (FY 2024), the group will continue with these focus areas and expand collaborative work across group members.

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