The Causes of Regional Variations in U.S. Poverty: A Cross-County Analysis

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Social and political forces as determinants of poverty: A spatial analysis (2007, methodology): “10 Levernier et al. (2000) found a positive association between the share of agriculture sector employment in 1990 and family poverty rate in 1989.”
Distance from Urban Agglomeration Economies and Rural Poverty (2008, background): “We expect the presence of single-headed households to increase poverty because the heads of these households typically possess fewer job skills, and there is typically only one earner in the household (Levernier et al., 2000).”
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics (2005, background): “Levernier, Partridge, and Rickman (2000) indicated that countylevel poverty rates are highly correlated with industry structure and labor market skill levels.”
Wal‐Mart and County‐Wide Poverty* (2006, methodology): “We add to an equation adapted from Levernier et al. (2000) that explains spatial variation in poverty rates a variable measuring the change in Wal-Mart stores, appropriately instrumented to avoid endogeneity problems.”