Exaggerated Tales of Rural Economic Decline

Georgeanne Artz, Arthur Hall and Peter Orazem

No 50225, Technical Reports from Brandmeyer Center for Applied Economics, School of Business, University of Kansas

Abstract: This report explains how frequent stories of rural economic decline in the United States have been exaggerated because of consistent measurement error on the part of researchers. Such error misinforms the policy-making process.

Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2005-02-25
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