Paige Kelly

About

Paige Kelly is interested in spatial inequality (community and rural/urban inequalities, poverty, and development issues), public policy, and social inequality and poverty. Her current research focuses on how local governments’ social policies affect inequality and poverty by race, rurality and gender in the United States. She has published on rural-urban disparities in voting and local governments’ capacity, economic development programs, and collaboration/competition. She also has expertise in statistically modeling regional processes and a graduate minor in quantitative research methods. Paige has published journal articles and professional reports. She has strong connections to the Rural Sociological Society, having served on their council (2017-2019), as a research interest group chair (2017-present), and on multiple committees (Programming, Awards, Ethics, and Diversity). She received her B.S. in Agronomy and Community & Environmental Sociology from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Rural Sociology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University.

Publications

• Lobao, Linda and Paige Kelly. Forthcoming. “Local Governments across Rural America: Status, Challenges, and Positioning for the Future.” Article prepared for the U.S. Federal Reserve’s volume Rural Development: A Framework for Supporting Vibrant Communities, edited by Daniel Paul Davis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and Andrew Dumont, Federal Reserve Board.
• Ard, Kerry, Tiffany Williams, and Paige Kelly. Forthcoming. “The Effects of Public Opinion on Environmental Policy in the Face of the Environmental Countermovement.” In Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism, edited by David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Riley E Dunlap. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Lobao, Linda and Paige Kelly. 2020. “Local Governments across the Rural-Urban Continuum: Findings from a Recent National County Government Survey.” State and Local Government Review 51(4): 223-232.
• Kelly, Paige and Linda Lobao. 2019. “The Social Bases of Rural-Urban Political Divides: Social Status, Work, and Sociocultural Beliefs.” Rural Sociology 84(4): 669-705.
• Ard, Kerry, Nicholas Garcia, Paige Kelly. 2017. “Another Avenue of Action: An Examination of Climate Change Countermovement Industries’ Use of PAC Donations and Their Relationship to Congressional Voting over Time.” Environmental Politics 26(6): 1-25.

Professional reports

• Linda Lobao, Mark Partridge, Oudum Hean, Paige Kelly, and Sung-hun Chung. 2020. Socioeconomic Transitions in the Appalachian Coal Region: Some Factors of Success. Research commissioned by the World Bank under the Global Support to Coal Regions in Transition (P171194).
• Linda Lobao, Mark Partridge, Oudum Hean, Paige Kelly, and Sung-hun Chung. 2020. Technical Assistance to Support Energy Transitions in Coal Regions: Socioeconomic Transitions – One Country Case Study. Final Report to the World Bank.
• Paige Kelly and Linda Lobao. 2020. County Government Survey 2019: Summary Report. Report prepared for the National Association of Counties. 

Grant funded research

• Co-Investigator. Mildred Warner (PI), Linda Lobao, Paige Kelly, and Yuanshou Xu co-investigators. “Local Government, Inequality, and Rural Well-Being.” National Institute of Food and Agriculture USDA 2021-67023-34437 March 2021 – February 2024, total $500,000.
• Research Consultant. Linda Lobao (PI), Mark Partridge (PI), Paige Kelly and Oudum Hean. “Technical Assistance to Support Energy Transitions in Coal Regions: Socioeconomic Transitions – One Country Case Study.” The World Bank. January – August 2020,
• total $40,000.