Research shows households are more likely to be poor in rural versus urban America. Does this phenomenon partly reflect … that people who choose rural residence have unmeasured attributes related to human impoverishment? To address this, two … replicates the well-documented finding of higher poverty risk in rural places. However, a two-stage instrumental variables …

In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this … phenomenon partly reflect that people who "choose" to live in rural areas have unmeasured attributes related to poverty? To …-being and rural/urban residential choice among a sample of 6,461 householders. A series of multivariate regression models are …

This article examines the independent and interactive effects of rural status and region of residence on health …. Individual level factors related to poverty are also tested, in conjunction with rural and regional residence. Negative health … Midwest. The results indicate a cumulative risk of rural and Southern residence for older men and women. Living in a rural …

conditions on the employment and earnings of rural non-college-educated workers. The results suggest that local economic … school degree compared to their college-educated counterparts. Further, there is evidence of a difference between rural and … urban labor markets, suggesting that the 1990s boom helped urban less-educated workers but not those in rural areas. The …