David L. Rigby
Department of Geography
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
t: 310.206.5536
f: 310.206.5976
email: RIGBY@GEOG.UCLA.EDU
office: 1255 BUNCHE

EDUCATION

B.A. Geography, University of Salford, 1981
M.A. Geography, McMaster University, 1983
Thesis: The Long Wave of Accumulation in Canada 1950-1980
Ph.D. Geography, McMaster University, 1988
Thesis: Technical Change in Canadian Manufacturing: A Regional Analysis

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Economic Geography
Technological Change
Evolutionary Models and Dynamics
Regional Growth and Uneven Development
Political Economy
Spatial Statistics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Burt, J., Barber, G. and D.L. Rigby 2009. Elementary Statistics for Geographers (3rd ed.) New York: Guilford Press.

Rigby, D.L. and S. Breau 2008. Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Analysis using Matched Employer-Employee Data. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Baldwin, J., Beckstead, D., Brown, M. and D.L. Rigby 2008. Agglomeration and the Geography of Localization Economies in Canada. Regional Studies 42: 117-132.

Essletzbichler, J. and D.L. Rigby 2007. Exploring Evolutionary Economic Geographies. Journal of Economic Geography 7: 549-571.

Rigby, D.L. 2007. Evolutionary Economic Geography. In Peck, Tickell, Barnes and Sheppard (eds) Politics and Practice in Economic Geography. Newbury Park: Sage.

Rigby, D.L. and J. Essletzbichler 2006. Technological Variety, Technological Change and a Geography of Production Techniques. Journal of Economic Geography.

Breau, S. and D.L. Rigby 2006. Is There Really an Export-Wage Premium? A Case-Study of Los Angeles using Matched Employer-Employee Data. International Regional Science Review 29: 297-310.