SPREAD AND BACKWASH EFFECTS FOR NONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S

ABSTRACT Few studies empirically estimate the effects of metropolitan growth on nonmetropolitan communities at a national scale. This paper estimates the growth effects of 276 MSAs on population in 1,988 nonmetropolitan communities in the United States from 2000 to 2007. We estimate the distance for...

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Published inJournal of regional science Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 464 - 480
Main Authors Ganning, Joanna P., Baylis, Kathy, Lee, Bumsoo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amherst, MA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2013
Regional Science Research Institute
Blackwell Publishers Inc
Subjects
America
Bgi / Prodig
Comparative studies
Estimates
Human geography
Metropolitan areas
United States of America
Urban development
United States of America
United States > US
Model
Induced effect
Exurban settlement
Urban sprawl
Demographic change
Nonmetropolitan area
Commuting
Rural community
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Summary:ABSTRACT Few studies empirically estimate the effects of metropolitan growth on nonmetropolitan communities at a national scale. This paper estimates the growth effects of 276 MSAs on population in 1,988 nonmetropolitan communities in the United States from 2000 to 2007. We estimate the distance for growth spillovers from MSAs to nonmetropolitan communities and test the assumption that a single MSA influences growth. We compare three methods of weighting cities’ influence: nearest city only, inverse‐distance, and relative commuting flow to multiple cities. We find the inverse‐distance approach provides slightly more reliable and theoretically supportable results than the traditional nearest city approach.
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ArticleID:JORS12026
ISSN:0022-4146
1467-9787
DOI:10.1111/jors.12026