Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census 2000 reports that hundreds of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only populations that are disproportionately minority, lack education, and live in single-parent households, but also...

This study examines regional trends in state income inequality in the United States. Data for the 48 contiguous states are used to estimate separate cross-sectional equations of state income inequality for I960, 1970, 1980, and 1990. Thus, previous cross-sectional studies of state income...

Regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have grown in popularity in recent years as an alternative method to examine regional economies and regional policy issues. However, the contribution of regional CGE models has yet to be assessed. Therefore, this paper surveys the literature...

Bayesian estimation is used to incorporate regional input-output information into the employment block of a regional econometric model. The Bayesian approach used borrows both from previous work on embedding input-output information within econometric models and from Bayesian vector...

This article presents the Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI) Economic-Demographic Forecasting and Simulation (EDFS) model, which is used for regional forecasting and policy simulation in both the private and public sectors in the United States. The detailed structure of the model is...

Policy design in a regional context requires explicit recognition of spatial heterogeneity in community characteristics as well as in the heterogeneity of how these characteristics impact the target variables. By providing only a “global†measure for the entire space, standard...

This research fills a void in the regional development literature by assessing how labor force migration affects regional adjustment in peripheral regions and whether it differs from the rest of the country. We do this by comparing patterns for the lagging Appalachian region to the United States...