The Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy is the peer-reviewed scholarly 
research publication of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association. It is 
open access and freely available at http://www.jrap-journal.org/. 



Volume 43, Number 2 (2013) 
Table of Contents 

Regular Peer-reviewed Articles: 

Understanding the Poverty U-turn Across Geographic Scales in the American 
Midwest, 1980-2010 
David J. Peters 

The Effect of Protected Federal Lands on Economic Prosperity in the 
Non-metropolitan West 
Ray Rasker, Patricia H. Gude, and Mark Delorey 

The User Cost of Low-Income Homeownership 
Sarah F. Riley, HongYu Ru, and Qing Feng 

Modeling the Louisiana Local Government Fiscal Module in a Disequilibrium 
Environment: A Modified COMPAS Model Approach 
Arun Adhikari and J. Matthew Fannin 

Using Revealed Preference Behavioral Models to Correctly Account for 
Substitution Effects in Economic Impact Analysis 
Daniel B. Deisenroth, John B. Loomis, and Craig A. Bond 

Empirical Evidence Regarding Regional Political Convergence in the United 
States 
Jac Heckelman and John Dinan 

A Simple Test of σ -Convergence in U.S. Housing Prices across BEA Regions 
Edward Nissan and James E. Payne 

2012 M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition Winner: 

Measuring Agglomeration Using the Standardized Location Quotient with a 
Bootstrap Method 
Zheng Tian 



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