Does It Cost Less to Live in Rural Areas? Evidence from New Data on Food Security and Hunger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2281379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Nord (United States Department of Agriculture, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-125 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2000.tb00345.x |
| OpenAlex | W1978095825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 7 |
Rural-urban differences in the association of food insecurity and hunger with income suggest that the cost of living is substantially lower in rural than in urban areas. This implies that the official poverty rate overstates rural economic hardship compared with that in urban areas. Geographic differences in cost of living implied by the association between food insecurity and income provide some validation of the cost of housing adjustment proposed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel on improving the measurement of poverty, but suggest that the NAS adjustment generally overcorrects for cost of living and would be seriously problematic in some regions
Agriculture · Cost of living · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Rural area · Rural poverty · Socioeconomics · Urban poverty · Agricultural risk and resilience · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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| Citations per year | 0.79 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |