The Regional Research Institute Research Seminar Series will feature Mark Partridge as he presents “Does cultural diversity matter for innovation? Empirical evidence from large-scale internal migration in China” at 4 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 30) in Reynolds Hall, Room 4201
Partridge is a professor of AED-economics at The Ohio State University where he served as Swank Chair of Rural-Urban Policy from 2006 to 2024. He also serves as a consultant with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
He served as editor of the Journal of Regional Science for 12 years and on several other academic journal editorial boards. Partridge has published more than 200 academic journal papers and 70 other book chapters, briefs and reports in some of the world’s leading economics journals, including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Geography and Journal of Urban Economics. He also co-authored “The Geography of American Poverty: Is there a Role for Place-Based Policy?”
Partridge has consulted with OECD, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and various governments in the United States and Canada, as well as with the European Commission. He has presented to the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament on regional issues.
He has also received research funding from many sources including the World Bank, European Commission, USDA, U.S. National Science Foundation and Canadian SSHRC and is one of the top rural policy experts.
Partridge’s expertise includes the economic effects of tax incentives and policy, regional economic growth — such as for states, cities and rural areas — effects of energy development, geography of poverty and migration. He is a fellow and former president of the Regional Science Association International and North American Regional Science Association. He is also the recipient of the prestigious NARSC Isard and Boyce awards.