Persistent pockets of extreme American poverty and job growth: Is there a place-based policy role?

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 201-224

  Partridge, Mark D ^a   Rickman, Dan S ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Geographically weighted regression; Persistent poverty; Place based policies; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248512301     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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