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Oct 25, 2017
One effective way to combat Ohio’s growing opioid crisis is to prioritize treatment in underserved areas across the state because those are among the areas struggling most with opioid abuse, says an analyst with the C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University.
The 2017 analysis, Taking Measure of Ohio’s Opioid Crisis, is 22 pages and available to download free online at go.osu.edu/takingmeasure.
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Oct 12, 2017
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to bring jobs and prosperity to communities that rely on the coal industry.
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May 8, 2017
AEDE Professor Mark Partridge weighs in the effects of raising the minimum wage in Ohio.
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Nov 17, 2016
AEDE faculty members and graduate students were recently recognized for their accomplishments at the 63rth Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (NARSC) in Minneapolis.
Below are some faculty awards:
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Jan 5, 2015
The U.S. and Ohio economies will continue to recover from the Great Recession in 2015 with continued but slow growth, according to Mark Partridge, an AEDE professor who holds the C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy. Partridge, who specializes in the analysis of regional growth patterns, spoke during the Dec. 1 kickoff of the college’s 2014-2015 Agricultural Policy and Outlook series.
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Oct 21, 2014
Cristina Connolly, Kathryn Dotzel, Norma Gomez, Isha Rajbhandari and Wendong Zhang, all students in AEDE’s doctoral program, have been awarded travel funding from Ohio State’s Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) to present papers at upcoming national conferences in Washington D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia that focus on the study of regional science.
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Jul 28, 2014
Kathryn Dotzel, a doctoral student studying under Alessandra Faggian at AEDE, is spending her summer interning at the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). She is working with a team of researchers to analyze the pilot results of the Rural Establishment Innovation Survey, which was launched for the first time in 2013, and examines business innovation in rural America.
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Jul 17, 2014
The Ohio State University Board of Trustees recently approved the promotion of Dr. Alessandra Faggian to the rank of Professor and Dr. H. Allen Klaiber to the rank of Associate Professor. Congratulations to these outstanding AEDE faculty members!
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Jun 25, 2014
Mark Partridge and Alessandra Faggian represented Ohio State at the International Regional, Urban, and Spatial Economics in China Conference held at Fudan University in June 2014. They both served as co-organizers of the conference and Partridge delivered the event's keynote address.
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Apr 14, 2014
The department yet again sent another very strong contingent of researchers to the 2014 Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) conference, which was held in San Antonio, Texas from March 27-29. The gathering marked the 53rd annual meeting of the SRSA and was attended by more than 100 scholars studying regional economics from across the U.S.
