Jake Burkey

Research Consultant
  Survey Science
  Information Systems
  Economics and Statistics
  Public Health

Curriculum Vitae

Publications
Technical Reports
Presentations
Web Surveys
Econometrics Code
GIS
Climbing

Publications

Burkey, J., Chouinard, H., and P. Wandschneider. 2007. "What Legislation Will Producers Support? How Knowledge, Relevance and Complexity Influence Attitudes of Wheat Growers towards Farm Bill Legislation", Journal of Agricultural and Food Information 8(2), in press.

Burkey, J. and T.R. Harris. 2006. "Impacts of privatization: Use of a multimodal survey", The Social Science Journal, in press. A multimodal survey is used to augment structural matrices in an IMPLAN model to determine the economic effects of forcing a community to sell a business asset to a private competing firm.

Burkey, J. and W. L. Kuechler. 2003. " Web-Based Surveys for Corporate Information Gathering: A Bias-Reducing Design Framework", IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 46(2), 81-93. Recipient of Rudolph J. Joenk Jr. Award for outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2004.

Burkey, J. and T.R. Harris. 2003. "Modeling a Share or Proportion with Logit or Tobit: The Effect of Outcommuting on Retail Sales Leakages", The Review of Regional Studies 33(3), 328-342. The effects of commuting and income level on outshopping are estimated by two-limit tobit, with estimation of the distribution of outshopping across competing market areas by multinomial logit.

Research Papers and Technical Reports

Packham, J., Griswold, T., Burkey, J., and C. Lake. 2005. “ 2005 Survey of Licensed Registered Nurses in Nevada.” University of Nevada School of Medicine.

Burkey, J., Harris, T.R., Packham, J., and J. Smith. 2003. " Yerington - South Lyon County Health Care Survey Report." Technical Report UCED 2002/03-14, Center for Economic Development, School of Medicine, Nevada Rural Health Partners, University of Nevada, Reno. Opens in new window.

Darden, Tim, Jake Burkey and Thomas R. Harris. 2003. " Estimation of Economic Impacts and Linkages of Churchill County Communications on the Churchill County Economy." Technical Report UCED 2002-03/11, Nevada Cooperative Extension, Center for Economic Development, University of Nevada, Reno. Opens in new window.

Burkey, J. 2002. " Returning to Work in the Same Industry Following Mass Layoff. " Applied binomial logit model to Nevada employment data to determine the contribution of selected individual characteristics in the decision to return to work in the same industry following layoff. Opens in new window.

Burkey, J., Harris, T.R., Packham, J., and J. Smith. 2002. " Lovelock - Pershing County Health Care Survey Report." Technical Report UCED 2002/03-13, Center for Economic Development, School of Medicine, Nevada Rural Health Partners, University of Nevada, Reno. Opens in new window.

Burkey, J., Harris, T.R., Packham, J., and J. Smith. 2002. " Battle Mountain - Lander County Health Care Survey Report." Technical Report UCED 2002/03-12, Center for Economic Development, School of Medicine, Nevada Rural Health Partners, University of Nevada, Reno. Opens in new window.

Presentations

Packham, J., Griswold, T., Burkey, J., and C. Ford. 2006. “ Health Workforce Trends in Nevada and their Impact on Health Care and Public Health”, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Nevada Public Health Association (October). PowerPoint presentation, 326kb, opens in new window.

Burkey, J. 2006. “ Interface Effects on Data Input Performance using Web Forms”, Presented at Showcase 2006, Washington State University. PDF document, opens in new window.

Burkey, J. 2004. " Web-Based Surveys for Corporate Information Gathering: A Bias-Reducing Design Framework. ” Presented at the International Professional Communication Conference 2004. PowerPoint presentation, 75kb, opens in new window.

Burkey, J. 2003. " Residential Water Demand in the Truckee Meadows of Nevada", Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Nevada Water Resources Association (February). Developed and applied dynamic instrumental variables model to household-level water demand data, and derived short-run, long-run, and peak price elasticities of demand. Summary presentation, based on complete Master's Thesis. Opens in new window.

Web Surveys

Nevada Dental Workforce Study 2006. Opens in new window.

Washington Wheat Growers Survey. Opens in new window.

Ontario Parks Recreational Use Survey - Web survey application providing direct access to online questionnaire for respondents as well as access for survey staff in Nevada and Canada using administrative interface. Opens in new window.

Web-Based Surveys for Corporate Information Gathering - A recent organizational web survey developed and administered within the guidelines of a design framework for managers and communications professionals interested in increasing the statistical validity of web surveys deployed in an organizational context. Opens in new window.

Lake Tahoe Personal Watercraft Survey - Administered multi-modal (on-site, mail-back, web) survey to assess the impacts of the Lake Tahoe personal watercraft restrictions. Opens in new window.

UNR Parking Survey - Developed and implemented web survey for the analysis of demand for parking at the University of Nevada, Reno. Descriptive statistics from survey data. Opens in new window.

Econometrics Code

GAUSS - Download Gauss procs and programs I've developed. Opens in new window.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Images and downloads from projects that have incorporated GIS. These links will open a new window.

UNR Parking Survey
Red Rock Canyon Project

Climbing/Mountaineering

Climbing photos and trip reports, as well as a revised version of the Red Rocks Climbing web site. These links will open a new window.

Palisade Glacier, May 2004
Blacksmith Peak, June 2003
Matterhorn Peak, September 2002
High Sierra trip, June 2002
Mt. Conness, July 2001 (just one photo)
Bear Creek Spire, June 2000
Red Rocks Climbing (reprise)