New Governance for a New Rural Economy: Reinventing Public and Private Institutions focused on the need for new approaches to regional governance in rural America.  The conference highlighted useful cases of new governance models, featuring examples from higher education, government, and the...

This paper examines how amenities, asset indicators, and fiscal factors influence the growth in factors of production from 1972 to 1999 in the 466 non-metropolitan labor market areas in the continental United States. In developing our model of non-metropolitan factor markets, we combine the...