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Place-based policy and rural poverty: insights from the urban spatial mismatch literature

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  • Mark D. Partridge
  • Dan S. Rickman

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Unless there are spatial barriers that limit adjustment, economists argue that policies to alleviate poverty should focus on poor people, not poor places. Akin to urban spatial mismatch hypotheses, we develop a distance-based friction explanation of higher rural poverty. Empirical examination of US poverty supports these frictions as partly underlying higher rural poverty. This follows from assessing the relationship between poverty and remoteness as well as labour supply responses. Higher rural poverty does not appear to be a simple result of the poor self-selecting to live in remote areas. The results suggest that place-based anti-poverty policies may be beneficial. Copyright 2007, Oxford University Press.

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  • Mark D. Partridge & Dan S. Rickman, 2007. "Place-based policy and rural poverty: insights from the urban spatial mismatch literature," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 1(1), pages 131-156.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cjrecs:v:1:y:2007:i:1:p:131-156
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    1. Christiaensen, Luc & Pan,Lei & Wang, Sangui, 2010. "Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Lagging Regions: Evidence from Rural Western China," WIDER Working Paper Series 035, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    5. Mark D. Partridge & Dan S. Rickman & M. Rose Olfert & Ying Tan, 2015. "When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(8), pages 1303-1325, August.
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    9. Daniel S. Grossman & Brad R. Humphreys & Jane E. Ruseski, 2019. "Out of the outhouse: The impact of place‐based policies on dwelling characteristics in Appalachia," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(1), pages 5-28, January.
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