Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-mlc7c Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T09:23:56.807Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Sussex County Input-Output Analysis: Implications for Policy Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Sharon Brucker
Sharon Brucker*
Affiliation:
University of Delaware, Department of Agriculture and Food Economics
Get access

Extract

Economic development in rural areas of the Northeast has received much recent attention. This paper presents an evaluation of the impact of possible development policies for one such rural area, Sussex County, Delaware. The evaluation is based on measures derived from a regional, primary data, input-output model. The paper is divided into three parts: (I) a description of the input-output model with special emphasis on the design of this model, a design which enables the in-depth study of several industries which are important to the Sussex County economy; (II) estimated measures for evaluating the relative significance of each sector to the region's economy; and (III) illustrations as to how the findings might be used to facilitate policy decisions currently facing or likely to face regional planners and representatives.

Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 263 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

She is indebted to Raymond Smith, Jerry Cole and Lynn Reinschmidt for their helpful comments.

References

Ayer, Harry W. and Bashett, James. Elasticities: Better Policy Statistics from Interindustry Studies. A paper presented at AAEA-WEA Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA, August 1977.Google Scholar
Bills, Nelson L. and Barr, Alfred L. An Input-Output Analysis of the Upper South Branch Valley of West Virginia. Bulletin 568T. West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, June 1968.Google Scholar
Brucker, Sharon and Cole, Gerald. An Input-Output Study of Sussex County, Delaware 1972. Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Forthcoming bulletin.Google Scholar
Doeksen, Gerald A. and Schreiner, Dean F. Interindustry Models for Rural Development Research. Technical Bulletin No. 139, Agricultural Experiment Station, Oklahoma State University, September 1974.Google Scholar
Grubb, Herbert W. A Structural Analysis of the Texas Economy Using Input-Output Models, Vol. I. Austin, Texas: Office of the Governor, State of Texas, December 1972.Google Scholar
Hiser, Michel L. and Fisher, Dennis U. An Interindustry Analysis of Clinton County New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Agricultural Experiment Station, July 1977.Google Scholar
Miernyk, William H. The Elements of Input-Output Analysis. New York: Random House, 1965.Google Scholar
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1975. Washington, D.C., 1975.Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Statistics, 1970, 1972. Washington, D.C., 1970, 1972.Google Scholar