Dan Rickman's research focuses on rural and urban economies. Specific topics that
he has examined include: the effects of energy extraction and the natural environment
on regional growth and development; regional business cycles; regional migration and
immigration; regional modeling for economic forecasting and policy analysis; regional
poverty; and the long-standing influence of the rural-urban hierarchy on regional
growth and development. His recently published research has appeared in journals such
as Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Regional
Science, Journal of Urban Economics, Land Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Regional
Science and Urban Economics, Regional Studies, and Southern Economic Journal.
