This map shows the population change in Appalachian counties from 2000 to 2009 as a percentage of the 2000 population.

A longitudinal economic analysis of business formation, survival, and attrition rates for new and existing firms.

This study provides county-level measures of labor force participation and underemployment rates for the years 1993 to 1998.

This study examines the inequality in manufacturing pay between manufacturing plants within states and counties of the United States, and compares them to Appalachia.

This study provided an early evaluation of the Appalachian Regional Commission's entrepreneurship program.

This volume reports the lessons learned from eight best-practice case study evaluations in which local stakeholders were asked to identify project-related lessons they had learned from the projects.

This report evaluated the implementation and impact of 84 education projects funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission during the 1990s.

This 2001 study found that, for the 118 Appalachian coal-producing counties, the total economic impact of the coal mining industry output–including the multiplier effect–was $18.4 billion in 1997.

This handbook has an accompanying software and worksheet toolkit that helps communities develop baseline economic data on their counties.