Progress 05/15/24 to 05/14/25
Outputs
Target Audience:During the reporting period, the target audience of our dissemination was other researchers who helped us to refine the research. They were reached via presentations at the North American Regional Science Association meeting in November 2024 and at the Southern Regional Science Association meeting in April 2025. Changes/Problems:Despite the start date of May 15, 2023, in the system, we did not have this set up at the university until mid July 2023, so the work is a little bit behind the original grant periods. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This project has provided training and professional development opportunities for two post-doctoral researchers who have learned new data, new empirical methods, and have been given exposure to extension and outreach communication from the PIs. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?In this period, our main focus has been the research community who has seen the work presented at multiple conferences and provided feedback through the peer-review process for one of the working papers. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Finalize the working papers and publish them, related to both Goals 1 and 2. Present at a workshop of Extension professionals to get feedback on the outreach/Extension approach and then develop materials/programming to share the findings more broadly.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
For Goal 1), we have conducted research using county level data on rural entrepreneursand have produced empirical results and 2 working papers. For Goal 2), we have begun to analyze the profitability of rural entrepreneurs using micro-data. For Goal 3), we have begun to develop outreach materials which will be shared in a workshop at a conference in the summer of 2025 to refine the approach.
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Progress 05/15/23 to 05/14/24
Outputs
Target Audience:During the reporting period, our initial analysis was presented to research peers at the Southern Regional Science Association Annual meeting. Changes/Problems:There are no major changes, however, despite the start date of May 15, 2023, in the system, we did not have this set up at the university until mid July, so that is when the actual work on the grant funded research began. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project has trained both the post-doctoral researcher and several graduate students on the use of new data and methodologies. The project has also given the post-doctoral researcher experience in managing a project and presenting new types of research. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?So far, we have only presented preliminary findings to peer researchers at the Southern Regional Science Association annual meeting. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We plan to finalize the analysis related to goal #1 and move onto the analysis in goal #2. We also plan to begin to develop outreach materials based on our findings so far to begin to address goal #3.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have completed the initial analysis related to goal #1 and are working to refine the results. Those results have also been presented to peers at the Southern Regional Science Association conference for feedback. We have also submitted an application to the Census Data Center at Penn State University to get access to the firm-level micro-data for goal #2.
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