Lionel Beaulieu

Lionel Beaulieu
Purdue University West Lafayette | Purdue · Purdue Center for Regional Development

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The COVID-19 pandemic may have spurred automation, especially in critical occupations. This article explores the potential of each detailed Standard Occupational Classification System (SOC) occupation being automated due to COVID-19. The authors explore two key elements of each occupation: its exposure to diseases such as COVID-19 and the probabili...
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Economic Resilience and Recovery in the U.S. Great Lakes Region: A Socioeconomic and Transportation Infrastructure Perspective: This report explores transportation and socioeconomic drivers of the economic resilience in two regions in Indiana, which include Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC) and Southeastern Indiana Regional...
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Executive Summary Domestically, industries are racing toward adoption of digital transformation to empower their data-driven manufacturing strategies. The increasing digital transformation seen in manufacturing is being enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and big data, which are bringing the potential and benefits of Artificial Inte...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) team wishes to express its thanks to SAC Committee members Barry Partridge and Angela Roosa from INDOT and David Dalton from INDOT for their valuable comments, insights, suggestions, and connections for the SPR 4446 (An Assessment of the Workforce and Occupations in the Highway, Street,...
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This paper introduces the concept of digital parity-similar levels of connectivity, devices, and skills between groups-that can lead to more digital inclusive communities. Utilizing a household survey measuring digital inclusiveness and ANOVA analysis, findings suggest that there are different levels of digital inclusiveness between groups. Differe...
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Selecting papers from multiple disciplines, we review the place-based literature on poverty in the United States, focusing on those that employ a spatial approach. We touch upon how poverty is defined in the place-based literature, the differing scales used to analyse poverty and how it affects results, ways in which urban and rural poverty is deli...
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Whereas the importance of transportation for economic growth is widely acknowledged, past studies on the resilience of regions to economic shocks have not given explicit attention to the role of transportation accessibility on building robust regional economies. This exploratory study examines the regional performance in six U.S. states during the...
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This paper explores occupational or human capital attributes of transportation and logistics clusters in the U.S., by analyzing logistics clusters, such as Memphis and uncovers the differences in occupations or knowledge and skill contents of the workforce. The research builds on previous studies funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administrati...
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Present findings of household broadband surveys in order to validate existing public broadband-related data and supplement with cost data and document "demand" for broadband, favorable factors for broadband adoption (teleworkers, children in the home, number of devices, etc.) and maximum amount willing to be paid for adequate and reliable service....
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Personal characteristics-such as education level, family structure, race and ethnicity-may be related to how likely individuals are to be poor. The built environment, social structures and economic prosperity of their community may further affect the probability of being poor. The poverty rate is the percentage of the population with money income b...
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This article applies spatial cluster and econometric analyses to study attributes of the transportation and logistics cluster regions across the continental U.S., focusing on jobs, clustering, and dispersal patterns. Two questions are examined: 1) Is transport and logistics specialization a primary feature of large urban metropolitan regions or do...
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This special issue of Community Development on the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative addresses a number of elements that are vital to the ability of impoverished rural areas to take steps to improve conditions in their communities. This article is intended to highlight the key findings from this study in the southern US that are of valu...
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Extension community development (CD) became part of the work of the Cooperative Extension Service in the mid-1950s, but the seeds of the CD program were planted with the release of the Country Life Commission in 1909. This article traces a brief history of Extension CD, along with the current priorities of this program area. Key issues that the Ext...
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The relationship between social interaction and college attendance is examined across varying types of communities. Structural arrangements and interaction patterns that foster positive relationships are regarded as social capital and are conceptualized as investments that can yield human capital returns in terms of higher educational attainment. L...
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For more than four de cades, community-based initiatives to develop distressed areas have achieved limited success (Clark, Southern, and Beer 2007; Giloth and Dewitt 1995; Green and Haines 2002; Richards and Dalbey 2006). With few exceptions (see Medoff and Sklar 1994), the goal of building the leadership skills of a new cadre of local residents an...
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Past research has noted that the size of a community's population may influence the nature of the interactions that local residents have with one another. Smaller-sized places help nurture a preponderance of strong, close-knit ties among people, while larger, more urbanized communities tend to have weak, secondary ties prevailing among residents. T...
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Abstract Rural areas continue to face a series of challenges; many are likely to have profound impacts on the vitality of these places over the long term. Of central concern is whether the rural sociological enterprise, a potentially vital source of information and guidance on such diverse issues, will be able to effectively respond to such challen...
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Today's rural leaders are becoming increasingly attuned to the fact that high achieving schools and related human capital investment strategies are key ingredients in the promotion of sustainable development at the local level. Serious challenges often await rural areas that seek to pursue such efforts. As a case in point, if rural schools are succ...
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Promoting the academic success of America's youth has been debated intensely within national and state policy arenas. Evidence has accumulated which shows that families and communities must be engaged in helping youth to be successful in school. In this paper, we employ the notion of social capital as a framework for understanding the performance o...
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This paper examines the role of social capital - the set of supportive interpersonal interactions that exists in the family, community, and school - in promoting educational achievement. Employing data on public school students from the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) and other secondary data sources, we examine the link between stude...
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This paper introduces the special issue on education and rural development.
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Many community leaders view economic development as the primary strategy for improving social well-being. One approach to economic development is enhancing the local labor force's human capital through formal education. In this article, we use a social capital framework to analyze how local institutions, specifically families and schools, affect ed...
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Abstract It is increasingly recognized that families and communities are important in helping youths develop the knowledge and skills they need to obtain technologically sophisticated jobs, which are an emerging part of the global economy. In this paper we adopt social capital as a framework for examining the influence of family and community on pr...
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The percentage of high school graduates in the rural South improved during the 1990s but lagged behind urban figures; the percentage of rural college graduates grew slightly. Rural-urban differences in educational attainment were even greater among minorities. The rural-urban income gap also widened and is not expected to improve, with few new high...
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The Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (AREERA) represents a concerted effort on the part of federal legislative leaders to rethink the manner in which agricultural research and extension programming are undertaken within the land-grant university system of our nation. For the first time ever, land-grant schools are...
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Debates continue to abound regarding the impor- tance of having an educated, well-trained workforce that can effec- tively fill the technology-sophisticated jobs emerging in the South. No doubt, the ticket to a decent job continues to be tied to a college education. But, the reality is that not all adults are able to secure a post-secondary educati...
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The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) makes it possible to build human capital resources by providing employment services and training to youth and adult dislocated workers. Such services are particularly needed in the rural South, where those affected by welfare reform have few job skills or educational credentials. WIA calls for the creation...
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This paper assesses the effects of human capital and social capital on the probability ofa person dropping out of high school, using the High School and Beyond data set. Utilizing logistic regressi~n, pre~icted drop~ut rates are uncovered for students whose families and communities differ in human and social capital, controllmg for financial capita...
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Since the advent of the 1980s, the economic viability of many farm operations has been severely jeopardized. Although attention has been directed primarily to the Midwest, in many respects farm stress has been greater in the South than in any other region. What is clear, however, is that the crisis is not strictly an agricultural one. Rather, a ple...
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The decade of the 1970s is generally regarded as one of increasing conservatism in attitudes and lifestyle. Using general social survey data from the period 1972–1980 the paper describes and explains some of the fundamental shifts in socially conservative attitudes (i.e. attitudes concerning civil liberty, abortion, racial segregation) which occurr...
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Conceptualizes diffusion/adoption of agricultural innovations as a structural process. This process is affected by what are called access conditions; these result from (1) research and development of technological innovations, (2) the intrinsic characteristics of the technology (i.e., labor saving, knowledge intensive), and (3) the distributional c...
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Findings from current literature form the basis for this examination of five critical elements of change and development within the local community setting which impact on agriculture: population, employment, land, water, and environment. Renewed rural population growth during the 1970's has reversed small farm trends but placed strains on local go...
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2 The concept of community needs assessment connotes a process by which as assessment of the current situation in the community is undertaken, value-based judgements regarding the preferred or desired situation are reached, and some determination of the priority status of local needs is made. As noted in the IFAS Leadership Development Program publ...
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Introduction to the special issue on education and rural development.

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