Poverty rates are highest in the most urban and most rural areas of the United States and
are higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas. Yet perhaps because only one-fifth …

This paper documents changing patterns of concentrated poverty in nonmetro areas. Data
from the Decennial US Census Summary Files show that poverty rates—both overall and for …

Partridge and Rickman explore the wide geographic disparities in poverty across the United
States. Their focus on the spatial dimensions of US poverty reveals distinct differences …

This article synthesizes an extensive literature on how local characteristics might affect the
nature of poverty, particularly US rural poverty. The attributes discussed include the natural …

Two data files, one from New Hampshire (n= 3308) and one from Georgia (n= 678),
containing 4-wk or weekly means, respectively, of ad libitum dry matter intakes (DMI) and …

This paper employs commuter flow data from the 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses, and
the 2006–2010 American Community Survey to replicate, evaluate, and extend the …

Despite significant poverty reductions in nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, Census
2000 reports that hundreds of counties still possess high poverty rates. They have not only …

Over the past four decades almost 400 US counties have persistently experienced poverty
rates in excess of 20%. This raises the question of whether poverty-reducing policies should …

Unless there are spatial barriers that limit adjustment, economists argue that policies to
alleviate poverty should focus on poor people, not poor places. Akin to urban spatial …

Place‐based policy is both ubiquitous and widely criticised. The conventional economic
case against place‐targeted interventions is strong, relegating its application to a narrow …