“Rural Economic Development: Alternatives in the New Competitive Environment

NE-162 1999-2000 Annual Report: Oregon

Oregon policymakers have two new tools for understanding the implications of policy changes

· The Oregon Legislature has contracted with OSU to work with the Legislative Revenue Office to develop and maintain the “Oregon Tax Incidence Model” that will allow the Legislature to understand the “feedback”effects of a change in taxes on personal income, and the distribution of the tax burden among income classes. The model was developed during the fall of 2000 and is being used by the 2001 Oregon Legislature.

· The Department of Housing and Community Services has picked up the “Poverty Dynamics Simulation” model originally supported by the Oregon Progress Board and developed over the course of several years by Liz Davis, Carolyn Boggess, David Kraybill and Bruce Weber. DHCS will continue to develop it as an analytical tool with some input from OSU.

Selected Publications

Waters, Edward C., Bruce A. Weber and David W. Holland, “The Role of Agriculture in Oregon’s Economic Base: Findings from a Social Accounting Matrix” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 24(1):266-280, July 1999.

Davis, Elizabeth E. and Bruce A. Weber. “Employment and Earnings of the Working Poor in Rural and Urban Labor Markets,” selected paper presented at the annual meetings of the Western Agricultural Economics Association, Fargo ND July 1999 http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/waea99/sp99da01.pdf

Davis, Elizabeth E., Laura S. Connolly and Bruce A. Weber, “Employment Outcomes for Low-Income Adults in Rural and Urban Labor Markets,” selected paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Nashville TN, August http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99da03.pdf

Davis, Elizabeth E. and Bruce A. Weber, “Employment Stability and Earnings of the Working Poor in Rural and Urban Labor Markets,” selected paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington DC, November 1999

Weber, B. and S. Bowman, Economic Well-Being and Poverty in Oregon and Its Counties, EM 8751, Oregon State University Extension Service, December 1999

http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/edmat/EM8751Oregon.pdf

Reinschmidt, Lynn, Mark Henry, Bruce A. Weber, Elizabeth E. Davis and Willis Lewis, “Welfare and Food Stamps Caseloads in Three States: Rural-Urban Contrasts”, P99-10, Columbia MO: Rural Policy Research Institute, December 1999 [Available on website http://www.rupri.org]

Cornelius, Jim, David Holland, Edward Waters and Bruce Weber, Agriculture and the Oregon Economy, SR 1014, Oregon State University Extension Service, March 2000

http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/edmat/SR1014.pdf

Weber, Bruce and Greg Duncan, “Welfare Reform and Rural America”, paper prepared for a Congressional Briefing on Welfare Reform and Rural Poverty, co-sponsored by the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center on Poverty Research and the Rural Policy Research Institute, June 21, 2000

http://www.jcpr.org/conferences/rural-summary.pdf