I spend 75 percent of my
time directing the Northeast
Regional Center for Rural Development, and the remainder as
Professor of Agricultural Economics, with a research appointment. Before
coming to Penn State, I served on the faculty at the University
of Kentucky for nine years with research and teaching responsibilities
in economic development. I spent 18 months in Senegal, West
Africa collecting farm household-level data and managing a research
project funded by USAID while pursuing my Ph.D. degree.
Although I have a wide
variety of research interests, an underlying theme of my work
is the role of markets and human capital in stimulating
economic growth and development. Recent research addresses
issues such as inequality and economic growth, migration, industrial
location, and the impacts of rural economic development policies. Current
studies include applications of spatial econometric methods to
modeling economic growth, the determinants and effects of social
capital at the county-level, as well as interactions among the
environment, wages and job growth.
Representative Publications
Goetz,
Stephan J. and Anil Rupasingha, “High-Tech Industry Clustering,” American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84 (5) 2002; forthcoming.
Rupasingha,
Anil, Stephan J. Goetz and David Freshwater, “Social
and Institutional Factors as Determinants of Economic Growth:
Evidence from the United States Counties” Papers in Regional
Science. 81, 2002: in press
Goetz,
Stephan J. and David L. Debertin, “Why Farmers Quit: A County-Level
Analysis,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
83 (4) 2001: 1010-23.
Goetz,
Stephan J., and David Freshwater, “State-Level Measures of Entrepreneurship
and a Preliminary Measure of Entrepreneurial Climate,” Economic
Development Quarterly, 15 (1) 2001:58-70.
Goetz, Stephan
J., Tanja Jaksch and Rosemarie Siebert, Editors, Agricultural
Transformation and Land Use in Central and Eastern Europe,
Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 2001, 340 pages. Book
reviewed in OstEuropa Agrarmärkte – aktuell Nr. 1/02, p.20.
Goetz,
Stephan J., “Agricultural Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
in a Global Perspective,” Chapter 1 in S.J. Goetz et al., editors, Agricultural
Transformation and Land Use in Central and Eastern Europe,
Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 2001, pp.1-22.
Rupasingha,
Anil, Stephan J. Goetz and David Freshwater, “Social Capital
and Economic Growth: A County-Level Analysis,” Journal of
Agric. and Applied Economics, 32 (3) 2000: 565-72.
Goetz, Stephan J. “Migration and Local Labor Markets”,
in Scott Loveridge, ed., The Web-Book of Regional Science, published
by the Regional Research Institute, Morgantown, WV, 1999. Available
at http://www.rri.wvu.edu/WebBook/Goetz/contents.htm
Freshwater, David,
Timothy Wojan and Stephan J. Goetz, “Measuring
the Effectiveness of Rural Development Policy in the United States,” IX
European Congress of Agricultural Economists, Organized Session
Papers, Warsaw, Poland, August 24-28, 1999, pp. 56-75.
Goetz, Stephan J.,
David L. Debertin and Angelos Pagoulatos, "Human
Capital, Income, and Environmental Quality: A State-Level Analysis," Agricultural
and Resource Economics Review, 28 (2) 1998:200-208.
Ngarambé, Octavian, Stephan J. Goetz and David L. Debertin, "Regional
Economic Growth and Income Distribution: County-Level Evidence
from the U.S. South," Journal of Agricultural and Applied
Economics, 30 (2) 1998:325-337.
Goetz, Stephan J., "State
and County-Level Determinants of Food Manufacturing Establishment
Growth: 1987-1993," American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79 (3)1997:838-850.
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