 Population decline and changes in food store proximityHelena Nilsson ()
No 13, HFI Working Papers from Institute of Retail Economics (Handelns Forskningsinstitut) Abstract: This study examines changes in the access to food stores between 2000-2013 using Swedish register data. The analysis shows that there have been increases of, on average, 400 meters in the neighborhood-level average distance to the nearest store. These changes are not systematically biased towards socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. I also analyze the relationship between population density and the distance from the neighborhood centroid to the nearest food store using a spatiotemporal analysis of panel data covering the same period. The analysis finds that a decline in population density is related to an increase in the distance to the nearest food store. This indicates that as long as there is a decline in population density, food store access by proximity will continue to decrease. Keywords: food; urbanization; retail; panel-data; spatial-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:hfiwps:0013 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in HFI Working Papers from Institute of Retail Economics (Handelns Forskningsinstitut) Handelns Forskningsinstitut, Regeringsgatan 60, 103 29 Stockholm, Sweden. |
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