Poverty and Place across the United States: Do County Governments Matter to the Distribution of Economic Disparities?

International Regional Science Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-187

  Lobao, Linda ^a   Jeanty, P Wilner ^b   Partridge, Mark ^a   Kraybill, David ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic analysis; economic growth and development; generalized moments estimation (GMM); generalized spatial two stage least squares; income distribution; income inequality; methods; other policy and applications; policy and applications; poverty; regional econometric models; social and political issues; spatial dependence; urban and regional issues

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859024417     PISSN: 01600176     EISSN: 15526925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160017611435356     Document Type: Article

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