David A Mcgranahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Mcgranahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgranahan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRANAHAN D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic Research Service |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The rural growth trifecta
Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining robust growth in the periphery of the USA, demonstrating the contingent nature of talent as an engine for economic growth. We test the hypothesis that rural growth in the knowledge economy is dependent on the ability to utilize new knowledge, perhaps generated elsew…
The Emergence of Rural Artistic Havens
Nearly all applied research on arts activity has examined phenomena in metropolitan areas. Findings from this past research confirm an arts specialization in a limited number of cities. This paper finds a similar pattern in nonmetropolitan areas, where a limited number of counties maintain or develop a distinct specialization in the arts. We document the emergence of these “rural artistic havens” and identify county characteristics associated wit…
Ambient Returns
This paper addresses the possibility that competitive rural manufacturing is increasingly driven by quality-of-life factors required to attract highly skilled and creative workers. Recent findings that highly creative workers are drawn to amenity-rich rural areas provide the empirical leverage for testing anecdotal claims that these areas tend to contain small manufacturing bases that are more reliant on innovation. This contrasts with the cost a…
Emoting with their feet
Creative class theory posits that creative people are attracted to places most conducive to creative activity. The association of the share of employment in the arts with various indicators of economic dynamism provides plausible support for this conjecture. We explicitly test this conjecture by modeling the 1990 share of employment in the arts at the county level, and then use the residual from this regression to explain differences in various m…
Recasting the Creative Class to Examine Growth Processes in Rural and Urban Counties
McGranahan D. and Wojan T. (2007) Recasting the creative class to examine growth processes in rural and urban counties, Regional Studies 41, 1–20. Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class (2002) makes a compelling argument that regional development now depends on novel combinations of knowledge and ideas, that certain occupations specialize in this task, that people in these occupations are drawn to areas providing a high quality of life, and…
Predicting overall life satisfaction
The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality
Personal disruptions, social integration, subjective well‐being, and predisposition toward the use of counseling services
The importance of social integration for the subjective well-being and predisposition toward professional counseling services of persons experiencing personal disruptions is explored among 1,423 northwest Wisconsin residents. Considerable support is found for the hypothesis that greater contact with close friends diminishes the effect of personal disruptions (health problems, marital break-up, and unemployment) on individual well-being. Some evid…
The Spatial Structure of Income Distribution in Rural Regions
utilization of federal health evaluation research. Pp. 141-64 in C. H. Weiss (ed.), Using Social Research in Public Policy Making. Lexington: Lexington. Pelz, Donald C. 1978 Some expanded perspectives on use of social science in public policy. Pp. 346-57 in J. M. Yinger and S. J. Cutler (eds.), Major Social Issues: A Multidisciplinary View. New York: Free Press. Rein, Martin 1976 Social Science and Public Policy. New York: Penguin. Rich, Robert F…
Correlates of subjective well-being in Northern Wisconsin
Correcting for Informant Bias
Recasting the Creative Class to Examine Growth Processes in Rural and Urban Counties
McGranahan D. and Wojan T. (2007) Recasting the creative class to examine growth processes in rural and urban counties, Regional Studies 41, 1–20. Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class (2002) makes a compelling argument that regional development now depends on novel combinations of knowledge and ideas, that certain occupations specialize in this task, that people in these occupations are drawn to areas providing a high quality of life, and…
Emoting with their feet
Creative class theory posits that creative people are attracted to places most conducive to creative activity. The association of the share of employment in the arts with various indicators of economic dynamism provides plausible support for this conjecture. We explicitly test this conjecture by modeling the 1990 share of employment in the arts at the county level, and then use the residual from this regression to explain differences in various m…
The rural growth trifecta
Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining robust growth in the periphery of the USA, demonstrating the contingent nature of talent as an engine for economic growth. We test the hypothesis that rural growth in the knowledge economy is dependent on the ability to utilize new knowledge, perhaps generated elsew…
Correlates of subjective well-being in Northern Wisconsin
The Spatial Structure of Income Distribution in Rural Regions
utilization of federal health evaluation research. Pp. 141-64 in C. H. Weiss (ed.), Using Social Research in Public Policy Making. Lexington: Lexington. Pelz, Donald C. 1978 Some expanded perspectives on use of social science in public policy. Pp. 346-57 in J. M. Yinger and S. J. Cutler (eds.), Major Social Issues: A Multidisciplinary View. New York: Free Press. Rein, Martin 1976 Social Science and Public Policy. New York: Penguin. Rich, Robert F…
Predicting overall life satisfaction
Personal disruptions, social integration, subjective well‐being, and predisposition toward the use of counseling services
The importance of social integration for the subjective well-being and predisposition toward professional counseling services of persons experiencing personal disruptions is explored among 1,423 northwest Wisconsin residents. Considerable support is found for the hypothesis that greater contact with close friends diminishes the effect of personal disruptions (health problems, marital break-up, and unemployment) on individual well-being. Some evid…
Correcting for Informant Bias
The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality
Correcting for Informant Bias
Correlates of subjective well-being in Northern Wisconsin
Personal disruptions, social integration, subjective well‐being, and predisposition toward the use of counseling services
The importance of social integration for the subjective well-being and predisposition toward professional counseling services of persons experiencing personal disruptions is explored among 1,423 northwest Wisconsin residents. Considerable support is found for the hypothesis that greater contact with close friends diminishes the effect of personal disruptions (health problems, marital break-up, and unemployment) on individual well-being. Some evid…
The Spatial Structure of Income Distribution in Rural Regions
utilization of federal health evaluation research. Pp. 141-64 in C. H. Weiss (ed.), Using Social Research in Public Policy Making. Lexington: Lexington. Pelz, Donald C. 1978 Some expanded perspectives on use of social science in public policy. Pp. 346-57 in J. M. Yinger and S. J. Cutler (eds.), Major Social Issues: A Multidisciplinary View. New York: Free Press. Rein, Martin 1976 Social Science and Public Policy. New York: Penguin. Rich, Robert F…
The Meaning and Measurement of Income Inequality
Predicting overall life satisfaction
The Emergence of Rural Artistic Havens
Nearly all applied research on arts activity has examined phenomena in metropolitan areas. Findings from this past research confirm an arts specialization in a limited number of cities. This paper finds a similar pattern in nonmetropolitan areas, where a limited number of counties maintain or develop a distinct specialization in the arts. We document the emergence of these “rural artistic havens” and identify county characteristics associated wit…
Ambient Returns
This paper addresses the possibility that competitive rural manufacturing is increasingly driven by quality-of-life factors required to attract highly skilled and creative workers. Recent findings that highly creative workers are drawn to amenity-rich rural areas provide the empirical leverage for testing anecdotal claims that these areas tend to contain small manufacturing bases that are more reliant on innovation. This contrasts with the cost a…
Emoting with their feet
Creative class theory posits that creative people are attracted to places most conducive to creative activity. The association of the share of employment in the arts with various indicators of economic dynamism provides plausible support for this conjecture. We explicitly test this conjecture by modeling the 1990 share of employment in the arts at the county level, and then use the residual from this regression to explain differences in various m…
Recasting the Creative Class to Examine Growth Processes in Rural and Urban Counties
McGranahan D. and Wojan T. (2007) Recasting the creative class to examine growth processes in rural and urban counties, Regional Studies 41, 1–20. Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class (2002) makes a compelling argument that regional development now depends on novel combinations of knowledge and ideas, that certain occupations specialize in this task, that people in these occupations are drawn to areas providing a high quality of life, and…
The rural growth trifecta
Recent work challenges the notion that attracting creative workers to a place is sufficient for generating local economic growth. In this article, we examine the problem of sustaining robust growth in the periphery of the USA, demonstrating the contingent nature of talent as an engine for economic growth. We test the hypothesis that rural growth in the knowledge economy is dependent on the ability to utilize new knowledge, perhaps generated elsew…
Economics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Creative class (4 works) · Creativity (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (4 works)