Are the Effects of the Macroeconomy and Social Policies on Poverty Different in Nonmetro Areas in the United States?

Autor/in	Gundersen, Craig
Titel	Are the Effects of the Macroeconomy and Social Policies on Poverty Different in Nonmetro Areas in the United States?
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 71 (2006) 4, S.545-572 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Rural Urban Differences; Metropolitan Areas; Models; Salary Wage Differentials; Social Influences; Economic Factors; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Ballungsraum; Analogiemodell; Sozialer Einfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; USA
Abstract	The macroeconomy and social policies can have substantial influences on poverty in the United States. In this paper, I investigate whether these influences differ across metro and nonmetro areas. To do so, using a 16-year panel of state-level data, I estimate state and year fixed effects models separately for metro and nonmetro areas to see if the effects of the macroeconomy and social policies differ between these two areas. These models are estimated using two measures--the poverty rate and the squared poverty gap--and by family type. I find that cyclical forces have a much stronger effect on the poverty rate in nonmetro areas in comparison to metro areas, but the effects are similar for the squared poverty gap; wage growth has a pronounced effect on poverty in metro areas but no effect in nonmetro areas; and state-level social policies have slightly larger effects in nonmetro areas, but the effects are small. (Contains 4 figures, 4 tables and 15 footnotes.) (Author).
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