Relating Transportation Quality Indicators to Economic Conditions in the South-Central U.S.

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Jonathan C. Comer ◽

Amy K. Graham ◽

Stacey R. Brown

Keyword(s):

Spatial Regression ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Past Research ◽

The South ◽

Government Officials ◽

South Central ◽

Pavement Roughness ◽

Federal Highway ◽

Regression Techniques ◽

The Relationship

Investment in transportation infrastructure is widely assumed to spur economic growth, a belief that persists among both the general public and government officials. However, research has provided inconsistent evidence to date, and many researchers believe that good transportation is a necessary but insufficient condition for regional growth. This study examines the issue from a different perspective than the majority of past research, using spatial regression techniques to explore the relationship between transportation quality and regional economic development at an intermediate spatial resolution. Using federal highway statistics on pavement roughness and bridge quality, this research examines the relationship between measurable results of transportation spending, as evidenced by better quality roads and bridges, and various indicators of economic health. This relationship is examined in the South-Central U.S. (Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) at the county level and uncovers moderate to weak regression coefficients overall but with notable spatial variations across the study area.

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Relating Transportation Quality Indicators to Economic Conditions in the South-Central U.S.

Regional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0882-5.ch710 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1399-1417

Author(s):

Jonathan C. Comer ◽

Amy K. Graham ◽

Stacey R. Brown

Keyword(s):

Spatial Regression ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Past Research ◽

The South ◽

Government Officials ◽

South Central ◽

Pavement Roughness ◽

Federal Highway ◽

Regression Techniques ◽

The Relationship

Investment in transportation infrastructure is widely assumed to spur economic growth, a belief that persists among both the general public and government officials. However, research has provided inconsistent evidence to date, and many researchers believe that good transportation is a necessary but insufficient condition for regional growth. This study examines the issue from a different perspective than the majority of past research, using spatial regression techniques to explore the relationship between transportation quality and regional economic development at an intermediate spatial resolution. Using federal highway statistics on pavement roughness and bridge quality, this research examines the relationship between measurable results of transportation spending, as evidenced by better quality roads and bridges, and various indicators of economic health. This relationship is examined in the South-Central U.S. (Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) at the county level and uncovers moderate to weak regression coefficients overall but with notable spatial variations across the study area.

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Relating Transportation Quality Indicators to Economic Conditions in the South-Central U.S.

Geographic Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch111 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1864-1882

Author(s):

Jonathan C. Comer ◽

Amy K. Graham ◽

Stacey R. Brown

Keyword(s):

Spatial Regression ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Past Research ◽

The South ◽

Government Officials ◽

South Central ◽

Pavement Roughness ◽

Federal Highway ◽

Regression Techniques ◽

The Relationship

Investment in transportation infrastructure is widely assumed to spur economic growth, a belief that persists among both the general public and government officials. However, research has provided inconsistent evidence to date, and many researchers believe that good transportation is a necessary but insufficient condition for regional growth. This study examines the issue from a different perspective than the majority of past research, using spatial regression techniques to explore the relationship between transportation quality and regional economic development at an intermediate spatial resolution. Using federal highway statistics on pavement roughness and bridge quality, this research examines the relationship between measurable results of transportation spending, as evidenced by better quality roads and bridges, and various indicators of economic health. This relationship is examined in the South-Central U.S. (Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) at the county level and uncovers moderate to weak regression coefficients overall but with notable spatial variations across the study area.

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Education, Self-Importance, and the Propensity for Political Participation

Perceptions ◽

10.15367/pj.v5i1.143 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Lucy Caffrey-Maffei

Keyword(s):

Political Participation ◽

Educational Attainment ◽

General Social Survey ◽

Past Research ◽

Government Officials ◽

Political Processes ◽

Cross Tabulation ◽

Using Data ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Past research has largely centered on the link between education and political participation. Although an array of evidence has suggested that there is a positive—if not causal—relationship between the two, some suggest that the relationship is spurious or mediated by other factors. Using data from the General Social Survey (2004-2014), the present study intends to revisit the phenomenon while controlling for self-importance in order to resolve the previous conflicting findings. The bivariate cross-tabulation indicates that educational attainment is a significant determinant of political participation. The trivariate cross-tabulation, furthermore, uncovers that self-importance confounds the relationship between education and political participation, such that the impact of education on political participation is stronger among those who feel less important. To be sure, the higher a person’s educational attainment is, the more likely they are to participate in political processes; and, moreover, this is particularly true of those who have depressed understandings of their importance in the world. These findings suggest that those with low levels of self-importance—likely traditionally marginalized, stereotyped, or stigmatized groups—are least represented by government officials and mandates. This, in turn, creates an American governance that fails to adequately serve and represent the desires and needs of all its people. The study calls on further research to explore the impact of other related variables on the relationship between education and political participation, and to create more appropriate and comprehensive measures of political participation and self-importance.

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Economic Growth of the South Versus other Regions: Past Trends and Future Prospects

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics ◽

10.1017/s0081305200027539 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 43-52

Author(s):

Herman Bluestone

Keyword(s):

Employment Growth ◽

Regional Growth ◽

North Central Region ◽

Future Prospects ◽

The South ◽

North Central ◽

Central Division ◽

South Central ◽

The 1960S ◽

Rates Of Growth

The dramatic surge of economic activity in the South is a relatively recent development. During the first half of the postwar period, the South, along with the Northeast and North Central region, lagged well behind the nation in population and employment growth (Table 1). It was only in the 1960s that rates of growth in the South began to exceed the national averages, and it was only in the 1970s that the South began to mount a serious challenge to the West for first place in regional growth. It also should be noted that the surge in southern growth was not uniformly distributed; most of it occurred in the region's two western subregions, the East South Central division and the energy-rich West South Central division.

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The Impacts of soil moisture over the Tibetan Plateau on Summer Precipitation in China

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-3808 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xin Lai ◽

Yuan Yuan

Keyword(s):

South China ◽

Northeast China ◽

Yangtze River ◽

Radiation Flux ◽

Eastern China ◽

Summer Precipitation ◽

The Tibetan Plateau ◽

The South ◽

South Central ◽

The Relationship

<p>The Community Land Model version 4.5(CLM4.5), driven by the atmospheric forcing dataset CRUNCEP, was used to simulate the spatial and temporal characteristics of soil moisture(SM) across the Tibetan Plateau (TP) from 1981 to 2016. This study reveals the relationship between SM on the TP in May and summer precipitation in eastern China and the physical mechanism for the impact of SM on summer precipitation. To investigate the relationship between SM on the TP in May and the summer precipitation in eastern China, this study used the monthly mean SM data from CLM4.5 and monthly precipitation data from CN05.1 for the period from 1981 to 2016. Singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis shows that the surface SM in the south-central TP was positively related to the summer precipitation in South China and negatively related to that in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Northeast China. The SM in the western TP was the opposite of that in the south-central region. The wetter the surface SM in the south-central TP in May was, the lower the surface temperature, sensible heat flux and net longwave radiation flux, and the higher the latent heat flux and net shortwave radiation flux, leading to weaker surface heating. In contrast, lower surface SM in the western TP led to stronger surface heating. This led to a weaker western Pacific subtropical high and a more northerly rain belt. The weather in South China was controlled by large cyclonic circulations forming convergences and updrafts that led to more rainfall in South China. The precipitation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Northeast China was less under the control of a single summer monsoon than that in South China.</p>

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The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Altruism Among South Korean Central Government Officials

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2013.41.10.1667 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (10) ◽

pp. 1667-1679 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Hyun Jung Lee

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Central Government ◽

Local Behavior ◽

The South ◽

Public Officials ◽

Government Officials ◽

South Korean ◽

Personal Connections ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

I examined the relationship of emotional intelligence (EI) with altruistic-distant behavior and altruistic-local behavior among public officials in the South Korean Central Government. Because South Korean public officials are accustomed to a strong bureaucratic system and value personal connections, I predicted that they would generate higher altruistic-local behavior than altruistic-distant behavior. Results showed that all EI factors were significantly and positively associated with altruistic-distant behavior, and altruistic-local behavior was associated with factors of awareness of others' emotions and management of one's own emotions. Individuals with high EI exhibited both altruistic-local behavior and altruistic-distant behavior in the workplace, regardless of their personal connections.

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