Matt Fannin
William H. Alexander Endowed Professor
Contact
mfannin@agcenter.lsu.edu
225-578-0346
130 Martin D. Woodin Hall

Matt Fannin is the William H. Alexander Professor of Rural and Community Development in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at 海角社区. He has been with 海角社区 since December 2003. In addition to teaching and advising students in regional economics and community development, his academic program includes research and extension components. His research program has included evaluating strategies around rural physician recruitment, rural hospital funding policies, and financial resilience of rural county and parish governments to tropical natural disasters in a changing federal policy environment. His research in recent years has focused on evaluating the role of wealth assets on economic prosperity and social mobility in rural and Micropolitan areas as well as understanding implications of changing rural definitions on policy and development. In addition, his extension activities include measuring the economic contribution of various agricultural and non-agricultural activities to the economy of rural and urban Louisiana.
Journal Articles
Carpenter, Craig W. and J. Matthew Fannin. 2021. Back to the Future: Re-Incorporation of 鈥楳etropolitan Character鈥 in U.S. Core-Based Statistical Area Delineations. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy. 51(2):67-81.
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2020. 鈥淚dentities and Regional Science.鈥 Review of Regional Studies. 50(3):323-328.
Petrolia, Dan, Jerrod Penn, Ruth Quainoo, Rex Caffey, and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. 鈥淜now They Beach: The Value of Beach Conditions Information.鈥 Marine Resource Economics. 34(4): 331-359.
Osti, Surendra, Maria Bampasidou, and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. "Labor-Intensive Multiple Cropping Systems and the H-2A Program. Evidence from the Crawfish Industry. Choices. Quarter 1. Available Online at: http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/the-role-of-guest-workers-in-us-agriculture/labor-intensive-multiple-cropping-systems-and-the-h-2a-program-evidence-from-the-crawfish-industry.
Weber, Bruce, J. Matthew Fannin, Kathleen Miller, and Stephan Goetz. 2018. 鈥淚ntergenerational Mobility of Low-Income Youth in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: A Spatial Analysis.鈥 Regional Science Policy and Practice. 10(2):87-101.
Chapters in Edited Books
Fannin, J. Matthew and Vikash Dangal. 2022. 鈥淲here do Small Cities Belong?鈥 Chapter 6 in Connolly, James J., Dangney G. Faulk, and Emily J. Wornell, Eds. pp. 153-168. Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities. Cornell University Press.
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2019. 鈥淔inancial Resilience of Local Government Impacted by Natural Diasters: A Framework for Calculating Climate Change Risk Liability.鈥 Chapter 15 In Lachapelle, Paul R., and Don Albrecht, Eds. pp. 232-242. Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States. Community Development Research and Practice Series, New York: Routledge.
Johnson, Thomas G., and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. 鈥淩ural Development - Theory and Methods.鈥 Chapter 24 In Cramer, Gail, Krishna Paudel, and Andrew Schmitz Eds. pp. 427-442. Handbook of Agricultural Economics. New York: Routledge.
Regional Economics
Rural/Community Development
Economic Contribution/Impact of Agriculture
Rural Health Economics
M.S., Agricultural Economics, 海角社区 and A&M College. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1998.
B.S., Food and Resource Economics, 海角社区 and A&M College. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, May 1996.
AGEC 1003 鈥 Introduction to Agricultural Business (Last Year Taught: 2022)
AGEC 2021 鈥 Introduction to Organizing and Visualizing Data in Agribusiness (Last Year Taught:
2022)
AGEC 4700 鈥 Problems in Agricultural Economics: International Comparative Analysis of Regional
Food Systems (Last Year Taught: 2022)
AGEC 4623 鈥 Rural Resource and Community Development (Last Year Taught: 2022)
AGEC 7623 鈥 Rural Development Economics (Last Year Taught: 2022)
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2018. 海角社区 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Pender, John, J. Matthew Fannin, Thomas G. Johnson, Alexander W. Marre, Richard J. Reeder, and Bruce A. Weber. 2015. Abraham Lincoln Honors Award for Enhancing the Economic Vitality and Quality of Life of Rural America. (Formerly USDA Secretary鈥檚 Honor Awards). USDA, Washington, DC. November.
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2014. 海角社区 Rainmaker Mid-Career Scholar Award
Technical Operations Advisory Committee (TOAC), Southern Rural Development Center, Chair (2023)
Member:
Social Sciences Subcommittee, Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy
(ESCOP)
American Agricultural Economics Association
Southern Agricultural Economics Association
Southern Regional Science Association
North American Section, Regional Science Association International
Rosales, Ilich and J. Matthew Fannin. 2022. "Optimizing Regional Information for Measuring the Economic Contribution of Alligators to the Louisiana Economy.* Presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, April 7-9, 2022. Austin, TX.
Dangal, Vikash and J. Matthew Fannin. 2021. "Impact of Childhood Environment in Racial Disparity in Incarceration Rates of Children Growing up in Poor Households. "Presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, April 6-9. [Virtual].
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2021. 鈥淚dentities and Regional Science.鈥 Presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, April 6-9. [Virtual].
Dangal, Vikash and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. 鈥淚s the Gulf Coast Region a Great Place to Raise a Child? Evaluation of the Upward Mobility of Children Raised along the Gulf Coast of the United States鈥 Presentation made at the Center for Natural Resources and Policy 6th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. May 19-21, 2019. New Orleans, LA.
Dangal, Vikash and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. 鈥淎nalyzing the Effect of Exposure to Natural Disaster Risk in Population, Employment and Home Price Growth in Coastal Counties of the United States.鈥 Presentation made at the Center for Natural Resources and Policy 6th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. May 19-21, 2019. New Orleans, LA.
Petrolia, Daniel, Jerrod Penn, Rex Caffey, and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. "Public Opinion of a Gulf-Wide Beach Conditions Reporting System. Presentation made at the Center for Natural Resources and Policy 6th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. May 19-21, 2019. New Orleans, LA.
Johnson, Thomas G., J. Matthew Fannin, Emily Wornell, Charles Fluharty, and Sam Cordes. 2019. 鈥淩ural Arts and Culture Through the Lens of the Comprehensive Wealth Framework.鈥 Selected Paper Presented at the 58th Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association. April 4-6, 2019. Washington, DC.
Dangal, Vikash and J. Matthew Fannin. 2019. 鈥淪tructural Differences in the Neighborhood Characteristics Associated with Social Mobility by Race and Gender.鈥 Selected Paper Presented at the 58th Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association. April 4-6, 2019. Washington, DC.
Pender, John, Thomas Johnson, Bruce Weber, and J. Matthew Fannin. Eds. 2014. Rural Wealth Creation. New York: Routledge Press.
Fannin, J. Matthew. 2022. Historical Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Louisiana Regions. Online at http://www.lsuagcenter.com/gdp.