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Linking Research and Rural Development Policy: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Feser, Edward - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

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Getting State Rural Policy Right: Definitions, Growth, and Program Eligibility

Isserman, Andrew M. - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

We often use the term rural very loosely when discussing public policy. Rarely do we describe explicitly the kinds of places we have in mind for particular programs and craft precise eligibility requirements that deliver the programs to those places without expensive leakages to other,...

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Why Don't Enterprise Zones Work? Estimates of the Extent that EZ Benefits are Capitalized into Property Values

Landers, Jim - In: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 36 (2006) 1

The study examines the impact of local Enterprise Zones (EZs) on commercial and industrial property values. Currently, 43 states have established EZ programs to target development incentives to economically distressed areas. While there is a substantial body of literature analyzing the...

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Encouraging Broadband Deployment from the Bottom Up

Feser, Edward - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

State governments that have elected to make investments to increase the availability of affordable broadband service in … locally- driven initiatives, rather than follow a top-down approach that seeks to identify and close all broadband service … gaps in a comprehensive fashion. A bottom- up approach to state broadband policy has three major advantages. First, it is a …

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Rural Poverty: Why Should States Care and What Can State Policy Do?

Weber, Bruce A. - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

Poverty is not evenly distributed across the American landscape. At the county level of aggregation, poverty is overwhelmingly a rural problem, with the most remote rural places at the greatest disadvantage. 1 Although research has shown that â€œplace mattersâ€ in poverty outcomes and...

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Mitigating Impacts of Big Box Retail on Local Communities

Irwin, Elena G.; Clark, Jill - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

Large discount retail stores (or â€œbig boxâ€ stores) generate both costs and benefits to local communities that are unevenly distributed across local employees, shoppers, other businesses and government. While these impacts affect communities across the urbanrural spectrum, the hardest...

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The Economic Case for State Land Use Decision-Making

Goetz, Stephan J. - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

Although all land use is local, few problems require the more urgent attention of state legislators than that of land use. How land is used has important economic, social and environmental consequences that may affect all residents of a state. States must take on more active roles as...

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Impacts of Tax & Expenditure Limits on Local Governments: Lessons from Colorado and Missouri

Stallmann, Judith I. - Mid-Continent Regional Science Association - MCRSA

Tax and expenditure limitations (TEL) on state and local governments have been passed with the presumption they will limit the growth of government, raise government efficiency, and increase direct democracy by requiring voter approval of tax increases. Both the popular press and the academic...

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Recreational Homes and Migration to Remote Amenity-Rich Areas

Chi, Guangqing; Marcouiller, David W. - In: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 42 (2012) 1

Counterurbanization pressures in remote amenity-rich regions present a host of land use and development planning issues. In the work reported here, we identify, examine and spatially analyze residential housing characteristics, land ownership, land developability, nat-ural and human-built...

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Incomplete Compensation and Migration Behavior: Has Anything Changed Between 1990 and 2000?

Clark, David E.; Herrin, William E.; Knapp, Thomas A.; … - In: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 36 (2006) 2

Spatial equilibrium models rely on migration to arbitrage away differences in utility across locations net of moving costs, where remaining differences in wages and rents reflect the compensating differentials related to site-specific amenities. Recent refinements to the spatial equilibrium...

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