Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950-2000

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-147

  Boustan, Leah ^a   Shertzer, Allison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Central cities; Demographic factors; Population growth; Suburbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872931672     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0137-5     Document Type: Article

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