DISTANCE FROM URBAN AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES AND RURAL POVERTY

ABSTRACT Despite strong national economic growth and significant poverty reduction during the late 1990s, high poverty persisted in remote rural areas. This study uses a geographical information system county database to examine the nexus between rural U.S. poverty and remoteness. We find that pover...

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Published in:Journal of regional science 2008-05, Vol.48 (2), p.285-310
Main Authors: Partridge, Mark D., Rickman, Dan S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agglomeration
America
Bgi / Prodig
Economic conditions
Economic development
Economic geography
Geographic information systems
Geographical information systems
Geography
Human geography
Metropolitan areas
Nexus
Poverty
Poverty alleviation
Regional economics
Rural areas
Rural conditions
Rural economics
Rural poverty
Studies
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
Urban agglomeration
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Summary:ABSTRACT Despite strong national economic growth and significant poverty reduction during the late 1990s, high poverty persisted in remote rural areas. This study uses a geographical information system county database to examine the nexus between rural U.S. poverty and remoteness. We find that poverty rates increase with greater rural distances from successively larger metropolitan areas (MAs). We explain this outcome as arising from the attenuation of urban agglomeration effects at greater distances and incomplete commuting and migration responses to lower labor demand in rural areas. One implication is that remote areas may particularly experience greater reductions in poverty from place‐based economic development policies.
ISSN:0022-4146
1467-9787
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00552.x