We are pleased to provide a forum for disseminating works-in-progress that support our mission to promote excellence in interdisciplinary, scholarly research on the economic and social development of lagging regions. These research papers focus on theories and history of regional development, methods for studying regions, and policies for stimulating their development. Where possible, we provide links to the original Working Paper in the repo and, once published, also to the publishing journal.
Papers are stored in the WVU Research Repository under collections, Regional Research Institute.
Submissions for 2023
WP 2023-02 New Business Opportunities and Enhanced Resilience Resulting from Covid-19. Heather M. Stephens, Zachary T. Keeler, and Mark D. Partridge.
WP 2023-01 Born to Care (or Not): How Gender Role Attitudes Affect Occupational Sorting. Carlianne Patrick, Heather M. Stephens, and Amanda Weinstein.
Submissions for 2022
WP 2022-01 Aggregation Bias and Input-Output Regionalization: Detail or Accuracy? Randall Jackson, Caroline Welter, and Gary Cornwall.
Submissions for 2020
WP2020-06 Commodities are Not Industries! A Value Chain Example. Randall W. Jackson and Patricio Aroca.
WP2020-05 Extending the Macroeconomic Impacts Forecasting Capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System. Christa D. Court, Randall W. Jackson, Justin Adder, Gavin Pickenpaugh, Charles Zelek, and Amanda J. Harker Steele.
WP2020-04 The Political Economy of Vermont's Abortion Bill. Shishir Shakya, Elham Erfanian, and Alexandre R. Scarcioffolo.
WP2020-03 Consistent Regional Commodity-by-Industry Input-Output Accounts. Randall W. Jackson and Péter Járosi.
WP2020-02 Enhancing Our Understanding of a Regional Economy: The Complementarity of CGE and EIO Models. Andrew Crawley and Geoffrey J.D. Hewings.
WP2020-01 Solar Bait: How U.S. States Attract Solar Investments from Large Corporations. Jed J. Cohen, Levan Elbakidze, and Randall W. Jackson. Published in The Energy Journal (2020) 41:2, 167-190.
Submissions for 2019
WP2019-02 Drinking Water Quality Impacts on Health Care Expenditures in the United States. Fahad Alzahranu, Alan R. Collins, and Elham Erfanian.
WP2019-01 Air Quality and Asthma Hospitalization: Evidence of PM2.5 Concentrations in Pennsylvania Counties. Elham Erfanian and Alan R. Collins.
Submissions for 2018
WP2018-06 Implicit Regional Economic goals and Objectives: A Study of U.S. Development Programs. Peter V. Schaeffer, Randall W. Jackson, and Eric Bowen.
WP2018-05 Economic Diversity and Regional Economic Performance: A Methodological Concern from Model Uncertainty. Jing Chen.
WP2018-04 Environmental Costs of European Union Membership: A Structural Decomposition Analysis. Inácio Araugo, Randall W. Jackson, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto, and Fernando Perobelli.
WP2018-03 The Impact of Naloxone Access Laws on Opioid Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Elham Erfanian, Alan R. Collins, and Daniel Grossman.
WP2018-02 Interpreting Economic Diversity as the Presence of Multiple Specializations. Jing Chen.
WP2018-01_R1 Value Chains: Production Upstreamness and Downstreamness Revisited. Patricio Aroca and Randall W. Jackson.
Submissions for 2017
WP2017-15 B&E The Effect of Health Care Entrepreneurship on Local Health: The Case of MedExpress in Appalachia. Amir Borges Ferreira Neto and Joshua C. Hall.
WP2017-02 Charges for Water and Access: What Explains the Differences in West Virginia Municipalities? Elham Erfanian and Alan R. Collins.
WP2017-01 Woody Biomass Processing and Rural Regional Development. Randall W. Jackson, Péter Járosi, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto, and Elham Erfanian.
Submissions for 2016
WP 2016-01 What is Near and Recent in Crime for a Homeowner? The Cases of Denver and Seattle. Adam Nowak and Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez.
Submissions for 2015
WP2015-06 Impact Evaluation of Investments in the Appalachian Region: A Reappraisal. Juan Tomas Sayago Gomez, Gianfranco Piras, Donald J. Lacombe, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2015-05 Looking Behind the Scenes: An Assessment of the Interdependence of Brazilian Cultural Industries. Amir Borges Ferreira Neto, Fernando Perobilli, and Alexandre Rabelo.
WP2015-04 Fellows Address: Are Industry Clusters and Diversity Strange Bedfellows? Randall W. Jackson.
WP2015-03 A Framework for Measuring County Economic Resilience. Mulugeta Kahsai, Junbo Yu, Mark Middleton, Peter V. Schaeffer, and Randall W. Jackson
WP2015-02 Cost-Effectiveness as Energy Policy Mechanisms: The Paradox of Technology-Neutral and Technology-Specific Policies in the Short and Long Term. Paulo Henrique De Mello Sant'Ana
WP2015-01 Toward Consistent Cross-Hauling Estimation for Input-Output Regionalization. Christa D. Court and Randall W. Jackson.
Submissions for 2014
WP2014-03 Cross-Hauling and Regional Input-Output Tables: The Case of the Province of Hubei, China. Yongming Huang, Anthony T. Flegg, and Timo Tohmo.
WP2014-02 Cross-Hauling in Input-Output Tables: Comments on CHARM. Randall W. Jackson.
WP2014-01 An Integrated Environmental and Economic Modeling Framework for Technological Transitions. Randall W. Jackson.
Submissions for 2013
WP2013-07 On the Finite Sample Properties of Pre-test Estimators of Spatial Models. Gianfranco Piras and Ingmar R. Prucha.
WP2013-06 The State of Play in Poland's Unconventional Shale and Oil Development. J. Wesley Burnett, Randall W. Jackson, and Robert Blobaum.
WP2013-05 Impact Estimates for Static Spatial Panel Data Models in R. Gianfranco Piras.
WP2013-04 Can Spatial Dependence Enhance Industry Sustainability: The Case of Pasture-Based Beef. Inocencio Rodriguez, Gerard D'Souza, and Thomas Griggs.
WP2013-03 A J-test for Panel Models with Fixed Effects, Spatial and Time. Harry H. Kelejian and Gianfranco Piras.
WP2013-01 Comparing Implementations of Estimation Methods for Spatial Econometrics. Roger Bivand and Gianfranco Piras.
Submissions for 2012
WP2012-05 An Analysis of Administrative "Best Practices" in the Administration of Business Incubators. Mark Middleton, Peter V. Schaeffer, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2012-03 Metro and Non-Metro Business Incubators: Similarities and Critical Differences. Randall W. Jackson Peter V. Schaeffer, and Mark Middleton.
WP2012-02 Estimation of Spatial Models with Endogenous Weighting Matrices and an Application to Demand Model for Cigarettes. Harry H. Kelejian and Gianfranco Piras.
Submissions for 2011
WP2011-08 Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach. Charlene M. Kalenkoski and Donald J. Lacombe.
WP2011-06 Social Benefits of Niche-Agricultural Products: The Case of Pasture-Based Beef in Appalachia Part 1: The Conceptual Framework. Inocencio Rodriguez, Gerard D'Souza, Alan R. Collins, and Tim Phipps.
WP2011-05 An Analysis of the Role of Self-employment in the Economic Development of the Rural Northeastern United States. Saima Bashir, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Jerald J. Fletcher.
WP2011-04 Telecommunications Investment and Economic Development: Evidence from a Panel of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Chali Nondo and Mulugeta Kahsai.
WP2011-03 The Role of Institutional Quality in FDI Inflows in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mulugeta Kahsai, Yohannes G. Hailu, Chali Nondo, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2011-02 An Analysis of the Relationship Between New Firm Formation and Economic Development in the Northeast Region of the United States. Saima Bashir and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2011-01Accounting Foundations for Interregional Commodity-by-Industry Input-Output Models. Randall W. Jackson and Walter R. Schwarm. Published in Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (2011) 4:187.
Submissions for 2010
WP2010-19 Fayette County, WV Case Study: A Look at the Movement Towards Energy and Water Efficiency. Davina Bird, Hodjat Ghadimi, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2010-18 Sustainable Economic Development in Energy Rich Economies: A Regional Approach. Hodjat Ghadimi.
WP2010-17 National and State Economic Impact of NETL. Randall W. Jackson, Amanda Krugh, Brian LaShier, and Ronald Munson.
WP2010-16 Who Generates Hazardous Wastes? Attribution of Producer and Consumer Responsibility Within the U.S. Christ D. Jensen.
WP2010-15 A Spatial Analysis of Poverty and Income Inequality in the Appalachian Region. Sudiksha Joshi and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2010-13 An Empirical Analysis of the Interactions Between Environmental Regulations and Economic Growth. Chali Nondo, Peter V. Schaeffer, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Jerald J. Fletcher.
WP2010-12 A Dynamic Shift Share Analysis of Economic Growth in West Virginia. Janaranjana Herath, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Blessing M. Maumbe.
WP2010-11 What Causes Waste Flows? An Interregional Analysis of Welsh Waste Shipments. Christa D. Jensen and Stuart McIntyre.
WP2010-10 Geography of Business Incubator Formation in the United States. Junbo Yu, Mark Middleton, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2010-09 A Spatial Analysis of Amenity and Regional Economic Growth in Northeast Region. Mulugeta Kahsai, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer. Published in Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies (2011) 23:2-3, 77-93.
WP2010-08 A Spatial Analysis of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Economic Conditions in the Appalachian Region. Nyakundi M. Michieka, Archana Pradhan, and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2010-06 Toward the Geography of Business Incubator Formation in the United States. Junbo Yu, Mark Middleton, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2010-05 Incubation Push or Business Pull? Investigating the Geography of U.S. Business Incubators. Haifeng Qian and Kingsley E. Haynes.
WP2010-04 Methodological Challenges and Institutional Barriers in the Use of Experimental Method for the Evaluation of Business Incubators: Lessons from the US, EU and China. Junbo Yu and Peter Nijkamp.
WP2010-03 Time Dynamics and the Introduction of New Technologies within IO Analysis. Christa D. Jensen and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2010-02 Obesity Prevention: A Review of the Interactions and Interventions, and Some Policy Implications. Anura Amarasinghe and Gerard D'Souza.
WP2010-01 Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence from COMESA Countries. Chali Nondo.
Submissions for 2009
WP2009-09 Who Creates Waste? Different Perspectives on Waste Attribution in a Regional Economy. Christa D. Jensen, Stuart McIntyre, Max Munday, and Karen Turner.
WP2009-07 Deconcentration, Counter-Urbanization, or Trend Reversal? The Population Distribution of Switzerland Revisited. Mulugeta Kahsai and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2009-06 Linking Tourism Resources and Local Economic Benefits: A Spatial Analysis in West Virginia. Jinyang Deng and David Dyre.
WP2009-05 Sustainable Economic Development in Energy Rich Economies: A Regional Approach. Hodjat Ghadimi.
WP2009-04 A County-Level Assessment of Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in Appalachia Using Simultaneous Equations. Maribel N. Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2009-03 Constructing a Baseline Input-Output Model with Environmental Accounts (IOEA). Taelim Choi, Randall W. Jackson, and Nancey Green Leigh.
WP2009-02 An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in West Virginia. Maribel N. Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2009-01 Is Income Inequality Endogenous in Regional Growth? Yohannes G. Hailu, Mulugeta Kahsai, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Randall W. Jackson.
Submissions for 2008
2008-06 Modeling Regional Recycling and Remanufacturing Processes: From Micro to Macro. Joyce Cooper, Randall W. Jackson, and Nancey Green Leigh.
2008-04 Recycling and Remanufacturing in Input-Output Models. Randall W. Jackson, Taelim Choi, and Nancey Green Leigh.
2008-03 Valuing Community Attributes in Rural Counties in West Virginia: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis. Maribel N. Mojica, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
2008-02 Energy in a Resource-Based Regional Economy: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis. Hodjat Ghadimi.
2008-01 Lung Cancer Mortality is Elevated in Coal Mining Areas of Appalachia. Michael Hendryx, Kathryn O'Donnell, and Kimberly Horn.
Submissions for 2007
2007-13 Modeling and Estimation Issues in Spatial Simultaneous Equations Models. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam.
2007-12 Issues in the Implementation of Interregional Commodity by Industry Input-Output Models. Randall W. Jackson and Walter R. Schwarm.
2007-11 A Spatial Panel Simultaneous-Equations Model of Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services and Household Income in Appalachia. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer, Tim Phipps, and Randall W. Jackson.
2007-10 An Empirical Analysis of Employment, Migration, Local Public Services and Regional Income Growth in Appalachia. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer, Randall W. Jackson, and Tim Phipps.
2007-09 A Spatial Model of Regional Variations in Business Growth in Appalachian States. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter V. Schaeffer, Tim Phipps, and Randall W. Jackson.
2007-08 The Role of Institutions of Private Property Rights and Money in Entrepreneurial Discovery. Odd Stalebrink, John Sacco, and Gerald Bushee.
2007-07 Farmland Preservation Programs in West Virginia: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Merits of Purchase Development Rights. Odd Stalebrink and Samuel E. Wilkinson.
2007-05 Global Impact of Energy Use in Middle East Oil Economies: A Modeling Framework for Analyzing Technology-Energy-Environment-Economy Chain. Hodjat Ghadimi.
2007-04 Conditional Logit, IIA, and Alternatives for Estimating Models of Interstate Migration. Christiadi and Brian Cushing.
2007-03 Modeling Small Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services and Household Income in Appalachia: A Spatial Simultaneous Equations Approach. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam.
2007-02 Agricultural Land Development in the Northeast United States: A Spatial Simultaneous Growth Equilibrium Model. Yohannes G. Hailu and Cheryl Brown.
2007-01 Impacts of Regional Growth on Farmland Development in the Northeast U.S. Yohannes G. Hailu and Cheryl Brown.
Submissions for 2006
WP2006-14 The Impact of County Level Factors on Obesity in West Virginia. Anura Amarasinghe, Cheryl Brown, Gerard D'Souza, and Tatiana Borisova.
WP2006-13 A Spatial Analysis of Obesity in West Virginia. Anura Amarasinghe, Gerard D'Souza, Cheryl Brown, and Tatiana Borisova.
WP2006-12 The Influence of Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors on Health and Obesity in Rural Appalachia. Anura Amarasinghe, Gerard D'Souza, Cheryl Brown, and Hyungna Oh.
WP2006-11 An Optimal Depletion CGE Model: A Systematic Framework for Energy-Economy Analysis in Resource-Based Economies. Hodjat Ghadimi.
WP2006-10 Identifying Spatial Clusters within U.S. Organic Agriculture. Cheryl Brown and Daniel Eades.
WP2006-09 County-Level Determinants of Local Public Services in Appalachia: A Multivariate Spatial Autoregressive Model Approach. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2006-08 Modeling Small Business Growth: Migration Behavior, and Household Income in Appalachia: A Spatial Simultaneous Equations Approach. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2006-07 A Dynamic CGE Analysis of Exhaustible Resources: The Case of an Oil Exporting Developing Country. Hodjat Ghadimi.
WP2006-06 Quality of Care in Appalachian Nursing Homes: Doing More with Less? Mary W. Carter and Shuhui Wang.
WP2006-05 Theoretical Perspectives on Industry Clusters. Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2006-04 Examining and Evaluating Aggregation Scale Effects on Interregional Commodity by Industry Trade Flow Estimates. Walter R. Schwarm and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2006-03 An Empirical Analysis of Country-Level Determinants of Small Business Growth and Poverty in Appalachia: A Spatial Simultaneous-Equations Approach. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2006-02 Participatory Watershed Management for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in India. Budumuru Yoganand and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2006-01 The Interaction between Individuals' Destination Choice and Occupational Choice: A Simultaneous Equation Approach. Christiadi and Brian Cushing.
Submissions for 2005
WP2005-07 Cross-Border Shopping and Sales Tax: A Reexamination of Food Purchases in West Virginia. Mehmet Serkan Tosun and Mark Skidmore.
WP2005-06 Loglinear Residual Tests of Moran's Autocorrelation: An Application to Kentucky Breast Cancer Data. Ge Lin and Tonglin Zhang.
WP2005-05 Specification of Functional Form in Models of Population Migration. Brian Cushing.
WP2005-04 Factors Influencing Venture Capital Availability in Rural States: Possible Lessons Learned from West Virginia. David W. Hughes, Kris Mallory, and Mihaela A. Szabo.
WP2005-03 Formula Apportionment, Tax Competition, and Provision of Local Goods. Santiago M. Pinto.
WP2005-02 Assessing Demographic Changes and Income Inequalities: A Case Study of West Virginia. Yohannes G. Hailu, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2005-01 Commodity Price Fluctuations: A Century of Analysis. Walter C. Labys.
Submissions for 2004
SP2004-12 Effects of Zoning on Residential Option Value. Jonathan C. Young.
WP2004-11 Location-Specific Amenities, Equilibrium, and Constraints on Location Choices. Brian Cushing.
WP2004-10 The Role of Small Business in Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation in West Virginia: An Empirical Analysis. Gebremeskel H. Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2004-09 An Economic Impact Study of the Pennsylvania Section of the Cove Point Expansion. Randall W. Jackson and Walter R. Schwarm.
WP2004-08 Labor Market Size and Unemployment Duration: A Theoretical Note. Peter V. Schaeffer and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2004-07 Developing Integrated Object-Oriented Conception of Geomarketing as a Tool for Promotion of Regional Sustainable Development: The Case Study of Ukraine. Volodymyr M. Anderson.
WP2004-05 Method for Constructing Commodity by Industry Flow Matrices. Randall W. Jackson, Walter R. Schwarm, Yasuhide Okuyama, and Samia Islam.
WP2004-04 Non-Linear Input-Output Models: Practicability and Potential. Guy R. West and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2004-02 Pull Factor Estimates for Retail Sales in West Virginia Counties. David W. Hughes.
WP2004-01 Dematerialization and Transmaterialization: What Have We Learned? Walter C. Labys.
Submissions for 2003
WP2003-12 Economics of Natural Disasters: A Critical Review. Yasuhide Okuyama.
WP2003-11 The Impacts of Walter Isard on Geography. Randall W. Jackson.
WP2003-10 Are Travel Demand Forecasting Models Biased because of Uncorrected Spatial Autocorrelation? Frank Goetzke.
WP2003-09 A Method for Testing Low-Value Spatial Clustering for Rare Diseases. Ge Lin and Tonglin Zhang.
WP2003-08 A Survey Analysis of Participation in a Community Forest Management in Nepal. Vishakha Maskey, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Timothy J. Dalton.
WP2003-06 Alternate Input-Output Matrix Updating Formulations. Randall W. Jackson and Alan T. Murray.
WP2003-05 Estimating the Impact of the Local Health Care Sector on a Rural Economy Using An IMPLAN based SAM. David W. Hughes and Tom Walker.
WP2003-03 State Minimum Wage Laws and the Migration of the Poor. Brian Cushing.
Submissions for 2002
WP2002-18 Interregion-Occupational Persistence and Dispersion: A Model of Geographic and Occupational Mobility. Ge Lin and Christiadi.
WP2002-17 Scale and Unit Specification Influences in Harvest Scheduling with Maximum Area Restrictions. Alan T. Murray and Andrés Weintraub.
WP2002-14 Constructing US Interregional SAMS from IMPLAN Data: Issues and Methods. Randall W. Jackson.
WP2002-13 A Spatial Logit Association Model for Cluster Detection. Ge Lin.
WP2002-12 Linking Economic Model and Engineering Model: Application of Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM). Yasuhide Okuyama and Hyunwoo Lim.
WP2002-11 Economic Impacts of Unscheduled Events: Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) Approach. Yasuhide Okuyama, Geoffrey Hewings, and Michael Sonis.
WP2002-10 Structural Change of the Chicago Economy: A Temporal Inverse Analysis. Yasuhide Okuyama, Michael Sonis, and Geoffrey Hewings.
WP2002-08 Modeling Migration Effects on Agricultural Lands: A Growth Equilibrium Model. Yohannes G. Hailu and Randall S. Rosenberger.
WP2002-05 Parametric and Non Parametric Testing for Income Convergence. James O. Bukenya, Tesfa Gebremedhin, and Peter V. Schaeffer.
WP2002-04 Race, Migration, and the Social Welfare System During the 1950s and 1960s: How Research Can Mislead the Public Debate. Brian Cushing.
WP2002-03 Competition and Complementarity on Local Economic Development: A Nonlinear Dynamic Approach. Richard Healy and Randall W. Jackson.
WP2002-01 Price Convergence on World Commodity Markets: Fact or Fiction. James O. Bukenya and Walter C. Labys.
Submissions for 2001
WP2001-24 Comparing Three Spatial Cluster Tests from Rare to Common Spatial Events. Ge Lin.
WP2001-20 Quality of Life Satisfaction: A Comparative Survey Analysis of the Eastern Panhandle and Southern West Virginia Counties. James O. Bukenya and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2001-17 Socioeconomic Trends in Mining Dependent Counties in Appalachia. Melissa Latimer and F. Carson Mencken.
WP2001-16 Reading Changes in Family Support Through Regional Development in China. Ge Lin.
WP2001-14 An Integrative Hierarchical Framework for Environmental Valuation: Value Pluralism, Thresholds, and Deliberation. Randall S. Rosenberger.
WP2001-13 Rationality, Decision Theories, and Thresholds: Implications for Environmental Valuation. Randall S. Rosenberger.
WP2001-12 Dispositions for Lexicographic Preferences of Environmental Goods: Integrating Economics, Psychology, and Ethics. Randall S. Rosenberger, George L. Peterson, Andrea Clarke, and Thomas C. Brown.
WP2001-08 Growing the Economy of Clay Country through Industry Targeting: A Preliminary Analysis. David W. Hughes and Steven N. Zaricki.
WP2001-07 Heterogeneity and Chaotic Dynamics in Commodity Markets. Catherine Kyrtsou, Walter Labys, and Michael Terraza.
WP2001-06 Site Correspondence Effects in Benefit Transfers: A Meta-Analysis Transfer Function. Randall S. Rosenberger and Tim Phipps.
WP2001-05 Towards an Understanding of Types of Public-Private Cooperation. Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge.
WP2001-03 Disability Legislation: An Empirical Analysis of Employer Cost. Beth A. Loy and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP2001-02 Seasonality, Nonstationarity and the Structural Forecasting of the Index of Industrial Production. Eugene Kouassi, Walter C. Labys, and Francois B. Aka.
WP2001-01 Environment and Trade: A Review of Issues and Methods. Haixiao Huang and Walter C. Labys.
Submissions for 1999
WP1999-12 Measuring the Impacts of Health Care on Rural Counties: Hospitals and Clinics in Preston County. Alyse Schrecongost.
WP1999-11 Using GIS to Identify High Value Areas in Large Coal Resources. Thomas F. Torries and Jeffrey Kern.
WP1999-09 High School Dropouts: Implications in the Economic Development of West Virginia. Semoa C. B. De Sousa and Tesfa Gebremedhin.
WP1999-06 Training Needs of Affordable Housing Nonprofits: How to Develop "Better Total Management"? G Stevenson Smith.
WP1999-05 Locating Gender in Rural Economic Networks. Ann M. Oberhauser.
WP1999-04 The Origins of Devolution: A Speculative Note. Scott Loveridge.
WP1999-03 Locational Differences in the Underlying Characteristics of Poverty. Brian Cushing and Buhong Zheng.
WP1999-02 Murder, Nonnegligent Manslaughter, and Spatial Autocorrelation in Mid-South Counties. F. Carson Mencken.
Submissions for 1998
WP1998-13 An Economist's Perspective on Urban Design. Scott Loveridge.
WP1998-07 Expressions of Discontent in America: Regional and Temporal Aspects of Third Party Governors and Gubernatorial Candidates, 1866-1996. Shannon Jones.
WP1998-03 Local Academic Knowledge Spillovers and the Concentration of Economic Activity. Attila Varga.
Submissions for 1997
WP1997-34 A Kalman-Filter Approach to Estimating the Natural Rate of Unemployment. Vicor V. Claar.
WP1997-31 Rao's Score Test in Spatial Econometrics. Luc Anselin.
WP1997-30 Social Contacts and Job Searching: Does Gender of Contact Matter? F. Carson Mencken.
WP1997-29 Regional Economic Effects of University Research: A Survey. Attila Varga.
WP1997-28 Linking Spatial Statistics with GIS: Operational Issues in the SpaceStat-ArcView Link and the S+Grassland Link. Shuming Bao and Luc Anselin.
WP1997-26 The Effects of Federal Spending on Earnings Change in Appalachia. F. Carson Mencken ane James H. Noon.
WP1997-25 The Utopianism of Children: An Empirical Study of Children's Neighborhood Design Preferences. Emily Talen and Mary Coffindaffer.
WP1997-24 Right-to-Work Laws and Local Economic Growth: Recent Evidence from Appalachia. F. Carson Mencken.
WP1997-23 Examining Substitution Between Property Crimes Using North Carolina Data. Jeffrey Merrifield.
WP1997-21 The National Role in Rural Economic Development: Some Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications. Andrew Isserman.
WP1997-20 Employer Recruiting and the Gender Composition of Jobs. F. Carson Mencken and Idee Winfield.
WP1997-19 Measuring the Public Realm: A Case Study. Emily Talen.
WP1997-18 Estimating County Cost of Living Indexes: The Issue of Urban Versus Rural. Laura A. Blanciforti and Edit Kranner.
WP1997-17 Agricultural Transformation in Rural Western Kenya: The Maize Crop in the Mt. Elgon Region, 1930-1950. Jennifer L. Hoskinson.
WP1997-12 Socioeconomic Performance in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas during the 1980s. F. Carson Mencken and Joachim Singelmann.
WP1997-11 Regional Aspects of Political Party Development in the United States: The Case of Governors, 1789-1824. Anna Falkner.
WP1997-10 Measuring Governors' Effectiveness: A Control Group Study. Brad Keller.
WP1997-09 Sense of Community and Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment of the Social Doctrine of New Urbanism. Emily Talen.
WP1997-06 Local Economic Development as a Game: We're Caught in a Trap, I Can't Walk Out... Stephen Ellis and Cynthia Rogers.
WP1997-05 Testing for Spatial Error Autocorrelation in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors. Luc Anselin and Harry H. Kelejian.
WP1997-04 Distribution-Free Statistical Inferences for Testing Marginal Changes in Inequality Indices. Buhong Zheng and Brian Cushing.
WP1997-02 The Economic and Social Impacts of NIMBYs. Terance J. Rephann.
WP1997-01 Wavelet-Analysis of Commodity Price Behavior. Russell Davidson, Walter C. Labys, and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd.
Submissions for 1996
WP1996-31 Is More Planning Better? An Exploration of Planning Expenditure in Florida. Emily Talen.
WP1996-30 Estimating Bank Lending Risk and Its Effect on Asset Allocation. David J. Sorenson.
WP1996-27 Interactive Techniques and Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis. Luc Anselin.
WP1996-24 External Ownership and Bank Lending Behavior: Empirical Evidence Using Control Group Methods. Andrew Isserman and Kimberly Dinjar Mencken.
WP1996-23 Local Economic Developers' Preferences for Industrial Recruitment: A Contingent Valuation Approach. Beth Loy and Scott Loveridge.
WP1996-22 Industry Structure and Earnings Growth During National Business Cycles in Appalachia. F. Carson Mencken.
WP1996-21 Estimating Interregional Price Indexes: Opportunities and Pitfalls. Laura A. Blanciforti.
WP1996-18 Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Linking SpaceStat and ArcView. Luc Anselin and Shuming Bao.