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About that Lower Cost of Living in Nonmetro Areas

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  • Ghelfi, Linda M.

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Wisconsin’s nonmetro residents get by on less income than their metro neighbors. But that’s not just because things cost less in the country. Some of the difference is due to the makeup of the population. Wisconsin's rural areas, for example, have higher concentrations of households with paid-up mortgages and households headed by an elderly person. Such households generally need less income to make ends meet.

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  • Ghelfi, Linda M., 1988. "About that Lower Cost of Living in Nonmetro Areas," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 5(1), October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310542
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310542
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    1. J. Tom Mueller & Matthew M. Brooks & José D. Pacas, 2022. "Cost of Living Variation, Nonmetropolitan America, and Implications for the Supplemental Poverty Measure," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 41(4), pages 1501-1523, August.
    2. Robert Hoppe, 1991. "Defining and measuring poverty in the nonmetropolitan United States using the survey of income and program Participation," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 123-151, March.
    3. Schwenk, F.N., 1992. "Economic status of rural older Americans," Agricultural Outlook Forum Archive 1923 - 1997 326820, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Outlook Forum.
    4. Molnar, Joseph J. & Traxler, Greg, 1991. "People Left Behind: Transitions of the Rural Poor," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 23(1), pages 75-83, July.
    5. James A. Kurre, 2003. "Is The Cost Of Living Less In Rural Areas?," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 26(1), pages 86-116, January.
    6. Brooks, Matthew M, 2019. "Differential Attainment of Affordable Housing among America’s Ethnoracial Groups; 2005-2017," SocArXiv qnvjr, Center for Open Science.

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