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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...
    Resource Type:
    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