Brian E. Whitacre

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the change in annual new loan volume that a new Farm Credit branch would generate using county market and spatial characteristics, including distance from potential borrowers in the county to the nearest lending office, acres of agricultural land rented, and value of agricultural real estate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the latest data on both broadband availability and adoption to empirically gauge the contribution of broadband to the economic health of rural areas, and found that high levels of broadband adoption in rural areas do causally (and positively) impact income growth between 2001 and 2010 as well as (negatively) influence poverty and unemployment growth.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors use coarsened exact matching at the census tract level to construct treated and control groups with similar pre-2015 demographic characteristics and broadband availability trends in Iowa and other states and assesses the policy impact on fiber and fixed wireless availability post-implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an empirical analysis of the effect of increased competition on the income potential of veterinarians in the United States with an increase in veterinarians' numbers.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between electronic health record (EHR) use/functionality and hospital operating costs suggests that increasing levels of EHR functionality are associated with hospital operating cost reductions in urban locations, and these results do not hold across geographies.