Swank Presentations

STRENGTHENING LICKING COUNTY THROUGH COMMUNITY COOPERATION, presented by
Mark Partridge at "Building Licking County's Future Through Regional and Community
Cooperation," Newark, Ohio, March 14, 2008.

 IS OHIO PERFORMING UP TO SPEED?: A BRIEF OVERVIEW SINCE 1970, presented by Mark Partridge at OSU AEDE Extension Update, Columbus, OH, March 12, 2008.

IMPACT OF ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT ON COMMUNITIES AND THE RURAL ECONOMY
presented by Mark Partridge at Ohio Water Quality and Waste Management Conference,
Columbus, OH, February 8, 2008.

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE OHIO: GROWTH THROUGH COMMUNITY COOPERATION
presented by Mark Partridge at CFAES Vice President’s Agricultural and Policy Outlook, Columbus, OH, October 29, 2007.

CONQUERING POVERTY ONE PLACE AT A TIME, presented by Mark Partridge for the Efferson
Series Lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October 25, 2007.

AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE MEASURES FOR DETERMINING ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED
COUNTIES AND AREAS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION, presented by Mark Partridge, Linda
Lobao, Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu, and Stephan Goetz for the Appalachian Regional Commission
-States Committee, Washington, D.C., October 4, 2007.

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE OHIO: LEVERAGING GROWTH THROUGH COMMUNITY COOPERATION, presented by Mark Partridge at the OSU Extension County Commissioners' Day, Van Wert County, Ohio, August 15, 2007.

BIOFUELS: CAUSES AND EFFECTS, presented by Matthew C. Roberts at the Swank Advisory Council on Rural-Urban Policy Meeting, Columbus, OH, May 15, 2007

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE RURAL OHIO: LEVERAGING GROWTH THROUGH COMMUNITY 
COOPERATION, presented by Mark Partridge at New Directions for Economic Development
 in Ohio, Columbus OH, April 24, 2007

BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE RURAL OHIO: LEVERAGING GROWTH THROUGH COMMUNITY 
COOPERATION, presented by Mark Partridge at the Regional Sustainability Forum, OSU Extension Center, Wooster OH, April 13, 2007

LOCAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT: ASPECTS OF INCREASING BIOENERGY IN OHIO, presented by Mark Partridge at the Future of Renewable Energy Conference, Columbus, Ohio, March 1, 2007

REGIONAL APPROACHES TO POLICYMAKING, Presented by Kimberly Gibson, Regional Growth Strategy Program Manager, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission to members of the Swank Advisory Council on Rural-Urban Policy Research and Education on December 13, 2006.

A RURAL BALANCE SHEET:  POLICY CHALLENGES & CHANCES IN 2007, presented by Mark Partridge at College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Science Vice President's 2007 Outlook Meeting held on the OSU campus October 30, 2006.

A BALANCE SHEET FOR RURAL AMERICA:  ASSETS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES, presented by Mark Partridge at Rural Communities:  The Challenges of Meeting Veterans' Needs Workshop, sponsored by the National Center of Food and Agricultural Policy and Easter Seals, Washington, DC, September 8, 2006



POVERTY Presentations

CONQUERING POVERTY ONE PLACE AT A TIME, presented by Mark Partridge for the Efferson
Series Lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, October 25, 2007.

PERSISTENT RURAL POVERTY:  IS IT SIMPLY REMOTENESS AND SCALE?, presented by Mark Partridge at the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2007.

PUSHING BEYOND THE MYTHS TO REDUCE RURAL POVERTY, presentation by Mark Partridge, Swank Professor, OSU, to the Canadian Parliament Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Ottawa, Ontario, October 26, 2006.

DOES A RISING TIDE LIFT ALL BOATS?  ASSESSING EMPLOYMENT-POVERTY DYNAMICS BY METROPOLITAN SIZE AND COUNTY TYPE, presented by Mark Partridge, Swank Professor, OSU, at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, October 13, 2006.

'EXPORT BASE' EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY, presented by Maureen Kilkenny, University of Nevada, and Mark Partridge, Swank Professor, OSU at the Organized Symposium session entitled "Trickling Down:  Does Local Economic Growth Reduce Poverty," 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Long Beach, California, July 25, 2006.

THE JOB GROWTH-POVERTY REDUCTION LINKAGE:  EVIDENCE FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, Mark Partridge, presentation at 2006 Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July 25, 2006.
 

RECENT ACADEMIC Presentations

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DO LOCAL RESIDENTS VALUE FEDERAL TRANSFERS: EVIDENCE FROM THE CANADIAN FEDERATION?, presented by Mark Partridge at the Department of Economics, Oklahoma State University, April 25, 2008.

URBAN FOOTPRINTS IN RURAL CANADA: EMPLOYMENT SPILLOVERS BY CITY SIZE, presented by Mark Partridge at the Southern Regional Science Association, Washington DC, March 27-29, 2008.

WAGE AND HOUSING COST GRADIENTS ACROSS THE URBAN HIERARCHY, presented by Mark Partridge at the Regional Science Association International World Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 17, 2007.

IS REGIONALISM 'JUST ALL ABOUT NOTHING': WHY SHOULD WE CARE?  presented by Mark Partridge at The University of Alberta: Cities and Regions Study Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, January 31, 2008.

WAGE AND HOUSING COST GRADIENTS ACROSS THE URBAN HIERARCHY, presented by Mark Partridge at the 54th Annual meetings of the  North American Regional Science Association, Savannah, GA, November 8, 2007.

THE GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY OF U.S. NONMETROPOLITAN GROWTH DYNAMICS:  A GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION APPROACH, presented by Mark Partridge at the Department of Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, October 24, 2007.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL Presentations

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WAGE AND HOUSING COST GRADIENTS ACROSS THE URBAN HIERARCHY, presented by Mark Partridge at the Regional Science Association International World Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 17, 2007.

THE DIVERSITY OF RURAL AMERICA: A TALE OF MANY 'CITIES', presented by Mark Partridge
at Growing Canada's Rural Economies, Canada Agricultural Policy Institute Workshop,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, February 28, 2008.

IS REGIONALISM 'JUST ALL ABOUT NOTHING': WHY SHOULD WE CARE?  presented by Mark Partridge at The University of Alberta: Cities and Regions Study Centre, Edmonton, AB, Canada, January 31, 2008.

INNOVATIONS IN RURAL POLICY: BUILDING STRONGER RURAL COMMUNITIES BY BUILDING        STRONGER REGIONS, presented by Mark Partridge at "Rural/Urban Linkages and Policymaking"  CAIRN AAFC Rural Secretariat Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, January 25, 2008.

SYNERGIES AT THE RURAL-URBAN INTERFACE, presented by Mark Partridge and M. Rose
Olfert at "Connecting Communities: Rural and Urban," Annual Rural Policy Conference of the
Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, Vermilion, Alberta, Canada, October 11, 2007.

USING CANADA'S POPULATION DYNAMICS TO BUILD STRONGER REGIONS AND COMMUNITIES,
KEYNOTE ADDRESS, keynote presentation by Mark Partridge at the Economic Developers Association of Canada Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. September 17, 2007.