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Dr. David Peters • Assistant Professor
My research areas focus on poverty and rural development. My work on poverty and inequality looks at how the shift from an industrial to post-industrial economy impacts economic well-being across space. Additionally, my work examines how person-based and place-based characteristics interact with a labor market to determine the chances of a person being poor. My work on rural development looks at why certain communities are better at using their resource endowments (such as natural, economic, social factors) to promote economic development than other similar communities. I currently teach the quantitative methods courses in the department, including Soc512 (Advanced Multivariate Statistics) and Soc613 (Structural and Latent Variable Models). In general, my teaching interests are in research methods, statistical analysis, and spatial analysis. Additionally, I teach in the distance community development graduate program through Great Plains IDEA, where I teach CDev513X (Economic Development Strategies). |
What's New with Dr. Peters Peters, D. Forthcoming. “Book Review: Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the Peters, D. 2009. “Typology of American Poverty.” International Regional Science Review. 32(1):19-39.
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