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  • Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

    Creator:
    Crandall, Mindy S.
    Abstract:
    This study models poverty changes across the United States between 1990 and 2000 as a function of spatial poverty variables (variables that attempt to capture the spatial effects of poverty and poverty changes), social capital, local employment growth, and demographic controls. Newly available decennial census data at the tract level...
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    Masters Thesis
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    makers; increasing economic growth helped everyone, including the poor. This situation, however, changed

  • Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

    Creator:
    Marre, Alexander
    Abstract:
    Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher

  • How Does Income Inequality Affect Community Economic Resilience?

    Creator:
    Wu, Xiurou
    Abstract:
    The Great Recession, which resulted from the burst of housing bubble and officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, started as a national recession in the U.S. and then affected countries across the world. Economies reacted differently to this recession and those systems that lost fewer jobs and/or recovered...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Department of Applied Economic at Oregon State University, where I learned and benefited a lot during the