County child poverty rates in the US: A spatial regression approach

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 369-391

  Voss, Paul R ^a   Long, David D ^a   Hammer, Roger B ^b   Friedman, Samantha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child poverty; Exploratory spatial data analysis; Spatial error models; Spatial lag models; Spatial regression

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CHILD; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845204889     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-006-9007-4     Document Type: Article

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