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Working Papers

2016

1. Firm patenting activity, metropolitan innovative environment and their effects on business survival in a high-tech industry
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2015

2. An Exploratory Analysis of Women Farmers and Rural Economic Growth and Development
   Staff Paper Series, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics
3. Factors Affecting the Interstate Migration of Manufacturing Firms: Much to Do about Nothing?
   Staff Paper Series, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics View citations (3)
4. Regional Business Climate and Interstate Manufacturing Relocation Decisions
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
   See also Journal Article Regional business climate and interstate manufacturing relocation decisions, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (23) (2016)

2010

5. The Urgent Need for Job Creation
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2026

1. Housing and Health: Linking Community Health and Housing Stress in Wisconsin
   Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2026, 41, (1)
2. Move, Stay, and Commit: Place-based Quality of Life in the U.S
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2026, 183, (2), 1-21
3. Prosperity Across the United States: Revisiting the Isserman, Feser, and Warren Prosperity Index Using Sequence Analysis
   International Regional Science Review, 2026, 49, (2), 147-178
4. The rise of nonemployer businesses in the United States: an analysis by geography
   Small Business Economics, 2026, 66, (3), 1263-1288

2025

5. Childcare closures and female entrepreneurship
   The Annals of Regional Science, 2025, 74, (2), 1-28 View citations (1)

2023

6. I will survive…but at what (opportunity) cost?: A spatial analysis of business survival and Jacobian externalities
   Growth and Change, 2023, 54, (2), 550-571 View citations (1)
7. Overeducation, natural amenities, and entrepreneurship
   Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, (3), 1111-1131

2022

8. Entrepreneurship, Broadband, and Gender: Evidence from Establishment Births in Rural America
   International Regional Science Review, 2022, 45, (1), 3-35 View citations (15)
9. Opportunity, necessity, and no one in the middle: A closer look at small, rural, and female‐led entrepreneurship in the United States
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2022, 44, (1), 162-196 View citations (3)
10. Rural broadband speeds and business startup rates
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022, 104, (3), 999-1025 View citations (29)

2021

11. It’s a wonderful loan: local financial composition, community banks, and economic resilience
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021, 126, (C) View citations (11)
12. Regional income inequality: a link to women-owned businesses
    Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, (1), 189-207 View citations (2)
13. Spatial Patterns in the Relationship Between Religion and Economic Growth
    Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2021, 51, (2) View citations (1)

2020

14. Incentives and Firm Migration: An Interstate Comparison Approach
    Economic Development Quarterly, 2020, 34, (2), 140-153 View citations (3)
15. One Real Problem at a Time: Revisiting the Status of Regional Science and Female Economists
    The Review of Regional Studies, 2020, 50, (3), 342-52
16. Regional Level Social Capital and Business Survival Rates
    The Review of Regional Studies, 2020, 50, (2), 230-59 View citations (1)
17. Surviving in a high-tech manufacturing industry: the role of innovative environment and proximity to metropolitan industrial portfolio
    International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2020, 16, (2), 501-527 View citations (3)

2019

18. Local and social: entrepreneurs, information network effects, and economic growth
    The Annals of Regional Science, 2019, 62, (3), 681-713 View citations (2)

2018

19. Social capital, religion and small business activity
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 155, (C), 365-381 View citations (23)

2017

20. Business survival rates across the urban–rural divide
    Community Development, 2017, 48, (1), 67-85 View citations (10)
21. FUELING JOB ENGINES: IMPACTS OF SMALL BUSINESS LOANS ON ESTABLISHMENT BIRTHS IN METROPOLITAN AND NONMETRO COUNTIES
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35, (3), 578-595 View citations (8)
22. INTERSTATE RELOCATION OF MANUFACTURERS AND BUSINESS CLIMATE
    Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2017, 29, (1), 18-45 View citations (7)
23. Women business owners: a source of stability during the great recession?
    Applied Economics, 2017, 49, (56), 5686-5697 View citations (11)

2016

24. Does gender matter for job creation? Business ownership and employment growth
    Small Business Economics, 2016, 47, (2), 397-419 View citations (16)
25. Regional business climate and interstate manufacturing relocation decisions
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 60, (C), 155-168 View citations (23)
    See also Working Paper Regional Business Climate and Interstate Manufacturing Relocation Decisions, MPRA Paper (2015) (2015)
26. Survival Rates of Rural Businesses: What the Evidence Tells Us
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2016, 31, (4), 5 View citations (4)
27. The State-Level Impacts of Enforcing Sales Taxes for E-retail Purchases
    Growth and Change, 2016, 47, (2), 276-295 View citations (1)

2015

28. WHERE ARE THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS? BUSINESS OWNERSHIP GROWTH BY GENDER ACROSS THE AMERICAN URBAN LANDSCAPE
    Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53, (4), 1872-1892 View citations (13)

Undated

29. Nonemployer Businesses Are Increasing in Number in Rural America
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 40, (2) View citations (1)
30. Pathways to Prosperity: Moving Beyond Growth to Evaluate Change in Community Well-Being
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 40, (2)

Chapters

2019

1. Entrepreneurship in Rural Employment in the US
   Chapter 6 in RURAL POLICIES AND EMPLOYMENT TransAtlantic Experiences, 2019, pp 93-108 View citations (3)

2017

2. Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Gender
   Springer