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Rural Community Participation, Social Networks, and Broadband Use: Examples from Localized and National Survey Data

Stern, Michael J.; Adams, Alison E.; Boase, Jeffrey - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 2

Although attention has been given to how broadband access is related to economic development in rural areas, scant …. Drawing on three diverse data sets, we examine the influence of broadband access on community participation. In addition, we … explore whether broadband access exerts its influence through, in conjunction with, or independent of social networks. The …

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Spatially Delineated Public Goods and Spatially Located Public Bads: A Hedonic Approach to Measuring Urban Revitalization

Brown, John; Geoghegan, Jacqueline - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 3

A regression discontinuity approach is used to measure the impact of public-goods creating programs in a declining inner city neighborhood of Worcester Massachusetts. Using GIS data, we develop a hedonic model of residential sales, using a parcel-level GIS tax assessment and land use database...

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In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 2

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Redistributing Agricultural Data by a Dasymetric Mapping Methodology

Martins, Maria de Belem Costa Freitas; Xavier, Antonio … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 41 (2012) 3

This paper examines the adaptation of dasymetric mapping methodologies to agricultural data, including their testing and transposition, in order to recover the underlying statistical surface (i.e., an approximation of the real distribution of data). A methodology based on the ideas of Gallego...

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In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 1

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Factors Affecting Farmer Participation in Agritourism

Bagi, Faqir Singh; Reeder, Richard J. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 41 (2012) 2

Using a national farm survey, this study estimates a logit model to identify factors affecting U.S. farmers' participation in agritourism. Of the dummy variables, public access to the farm for recreation has the greatest positive impact, followed by farms near central cities, farms in Rocky...

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

Wojan, Timothy R.; McGranahan, David A. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 36 (2007) 1

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...

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

Markusen, Ann - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 36 (2007) 1

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...

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