Is the "cost of enough food" lower in rural areas?

Review of Regional Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-310

  Nord, Mark ^a   Leibtag, Ephraim ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of food; Cost of living; Inter area cost of living; Rural urban

Indexed keywords

COST; FOOD; LIVING STANDARD; RURAL AREA; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON;

EID: 33746651019     PISSN: 0048749X     EISSN: 0048749X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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