Recently added articles from Agricultural and Resource Economics Review:

Special Issue on Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Rural Creative Economy

Apr 01, 2007; Gabe, Todd ... Economic development is a top priority of state and local policymakers. In many rural areas, the abilities to enhance employment opportunities and raise earnings are practically necessary ingredients for survival. Prescriptions for rural economic development have evolved over time from ...

Place-Based Economic Policy: Innovation or Fad?

Apr 01, 2007; Johnson, Thomas G ... This paper explores the emerging concept of place-based economic policy. It reviews recent literature on place-based economics policy, especially regional competitiveness policy, and explores the adoption and diffusion of this concept by economic development practitioners and social science ...

A Consumption Base Theory of Development: An Application to the Rural Cultural Economy

Apr 01, 2007; Markusen, Ann ... Export base theory, which posits that overall regional growth is a function of external sales of locally produced goods and services, dominates economic development practice. But the consumption base can also serve as a growth driver, especially in small towns and rural areas. Local investments ...

Spatial Analysis of Rural Economic Development Using a Locally Weighted Regression Model

Apr 01, 2007; Cho, Seong-Hoon; Kim, Seung Gyu; Clark, Christopher D; Park, William M ... This study uses locally weighted regression to identify county-level characteristics that serve as drivers of creative employment throughout the southern United States. We found that higher per capita income, greater infrastructure investments, and the rural nature of a county tended to promote ...

What Is Historic Integrity Worth to the General Public? Evidence from a Proposed Relocation of a West Virginia Agricultural Mill

Apr 01, 2007; Maskey, Vishakha; Brown, Cheryl; Collins, Alan R; Nassar, Hala F ... While historians believe that preserving a historic building in its original location is important to maintain its historic integrity, the general public's opinion is unknown. Survey data were gathered from local residents regarding a proposed relocation of a historic mill in rural West ...

The Emergence of Rural Artistic Havens: A First Look

Apr 01, 2007; Wojan, Timothy R; Lambert, Dayton M; McGranahan, David A ... Nearly all applied research on arts activity has examined phenomena in metropolitan areas. Findings from this past research confirm an arts specialization in a limited number of cities. This paper finds a similar pattern in nonmetropolitan areas, where a limited number of counties maintain or ...

The Effects of Workforce Creativity on Earnings in U.S. Counties

Apr 01, 2007; Gabe, Todd M; Colby, Kristen; Bell, Kathleen P ... This paper examines the effects of local workforce creativity on county-level earnings. Descriptive analysis of the data shows that most of the high-creativity counties in the United States are part of metropolitan areas, and that employee earnings are high in these places. Regression results ...

Net Gains from 'Net Purchases? Farmers' Preferences for Online and Local Input Purchases

Apr 01, 2007; Batte, Marvin T; Ernst, Stan ... E-commerce represents both threats to and opportunities for rural communities. This study addresses one element of the issue: farmers' willingness to substitute online merchants or national farm input stores for local businesses. Results of a conjoint analysis of contingent choice experiments ...

Can Health Care Services Attract Retirees And Contribute to the Economic Sustainability of Rural Places?

Apr 01, 2007; Oehmke, James F; Tsukamoto, Satoshi; Post, Lori A ... The search for engines to power rural economic growth has gone beyond the traditional boundaries of the food and fiber sector to industries such as tourism and to schemes such as attracting metropolitan workers to commuter communities with rural amenities. A group that has been somewhat ...

Amenities and Rural Appalachia Economic Growth

Apr 01, 2007; Deller, Steven; Lledo, Victor ... Patterns of economic growth in rural Appalachia are examined with a focus on natural and built amenities. While the literature is clear that rural areas endowed with scenic beauty, lakes, forests, and wildlife, among other natural amenities, and coupled with built amenities such as golf courses, ...

Ambient Returns: Creative Capital's Contribution to Local Manufacturing Competitiveness

Apr 01, 2007; Wojan, Timothy R; McGranahan, David A ... This paper addresses the possibility that competitive rural manufacturing is increasingly driven by quality-of-life factors required to attract highly skilled and creative workers. Recent findings that highly creative workers are drawn to amenity-rich rural areas provide the empirical leverage ...

Regional Growth Impacts on Agricultural Land Development: A Spatial Model for Three States

Apr 01, 2007; Hailu, Yohannes G; Brown, Cheryl ... In this study we attempt to understand the relationship between regional growth in population, employment, and per capita income, and farmland development in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. A spatial simultaneous equations model is estimated using county-level data. Results indicate ...