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Dr. Morrow-Jones has a
long-term research interest in housing, residential mobility, homeownership,
suburbanization, housing choice and government policy. Past research on Columbus
and the surrounding region and the computer programs and data bases developed in
those previous projects provide a foundation for the current research. Two of Dr. Morrow-Jones’ recent projects have
focused on household movement within the Columbus metropolitan area. The first examined the movement patterns and
satisfaction of repeat homebuyers in Franklin County in 1995. The results have been presented locally, as
well as at national and international conferences and several manuscripts are in
preparation and under review. The
results contributed to the passage of the 1997 federal tax act that materially
altered the capital gains treatment of housing.
Even more important, the results contributed to success in obtaining an
award of $28,500 for a seven county, 14-year analysis from the Center for Real
Estate Education and Research. Dr.
Morrow-Jones’ most recent Urban Affairs grant was combined with that funding and
several other small grants to create a total of $55,000 for the creation of a
repeat homebuyer data set for the central Ohio area. Dr. Morrow-Jones holds a courtesy appointment as an associate
professor in the Geography Department and is the associate director of the
Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)
at Ohio State University.
Elena G.
Irwin
Assistant
Professor
Agricultural, Environmental, and
Development Economics Department
Dr. Irwin’s
research focuses on causes and consequences of growth in local and regional
economies, including changes in spatial land use patterns in suburban, exurban,
and rural areas; the influence of government policies on residential location
decisions; and the relationship between sprawl and urban decline in regional
economies. Her research applies theory
and modeling techniques from spatial and regional economics, including the
application of spatial econometrics and geographic information systems. Her recent work focuses on explaining the
fragmented and scattered pattern of residential development in exurban areas
using a data set of parcel-level land use changes from a central Maryland
region. New research on household
migration to suburban and exurban areas complements this ongoing research by
providing additional data on household characteristics and spatial patterns of
origin-destination moves.
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