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Andrew M Isserman

B.A. Amherst College, 1968
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1970
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1975

ACE 592-REP: Regional Economics and Policy
ACE 592-EIA: Economic Impact Analysis
ACE 592-FPA: Federal Program Analysis
UP 505: Urban and Regional Analysis
CHP 395/396: U.S. Cultures and Economies in Contemporary Film

Regional and rural economic development
Quantitative methods for regional economic and demographic analysis
Control group methods for evaluating public policy

Isserman, Feser, and Warren. 2009. Why some rural places prosper and others do not. International Regional Science Review 32,3: 300-342.

Low and Isserman. 2009. Ethanol and the local economy: Industry trends, location factors, economic impacts, and risks. Economic Development Quarterly 23,1: 71-88.

Feser and Isserman. 2009. The rural role in national value chains. Regional Studies 43,1: 89–109.

Isserman. 2007. Getting state rural policy right: Definitions, growth, and program eligibility. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 37,1: 73-79.

Isserman. 2007. Forecasting to learn how the world can work. In Engaging Our Futures: Forecasts, Scenarios, Plans, and Projects, Lewis D. Hopkins and Marisa Zapata, eds., ch. 9, pp. 175-197. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Isserman and Westervelt. 2006. 1.5 million missing numbers: Overcoming employment suppression in County Business Patterns data. International Regional Science Review 29,3:311-335.

Isserman. 2005. In the national interest: Defining rural and urban correctly for research and public policy. International Regional Science Review 28,4: 465-499.

Isserman. 2004. Intellectual leaders of regional science: A half-century citation study. Papers in Regional Science 83,1: 91-126.