Andrew Isserman

Andrew Isserman is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He develops, refines, and applies analytical methods for studying economic and demographic change and related policy issues.

Isserman has won two National Planning Awards from the American Planning Association, the GEM Award from the National Council for Geographic Education, a Research Fellowship from the American Statistical Association, and a medal from the Soviet Academy of Sciences, among other honors.

His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Ford Foundation, Appalachian Regional Commission, U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, and Interior, and others.

Recently published studies have measured the effects on rural economies of casino gambling, dam construction, federal rural development programs, highway investment, military base closure, nuclear weapon site conversion, and other policy decisions. He also is working on methods for analyzing and forecasting local economic and demographic change.

Isserman received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

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