Riding the Wave of Urban Growth in the Countryside: Spread, Backwash, or Stagnation?

By Mark D. Partridge, R. Bollman, M. R. Olfert, A. Alasia. Land Economics, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Do New Economic Geography agglomeration shadows underlie current population dynamics across the urban hierarchy (2009, background): “We regress population growth between periods 0 and t on initial period (0) conditions to allow for transitions from one equilibrium to another, consistent with related literature (Eeckhout 2004; Partridge et al. 2007a).”
The Geographic Diversity of U.S. Nonmetropolitan Growth Dynamics: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach (2008, methodology): “We follow Partridge and Rickman (2006), Partridge, Olfert, and Alasia (2007), and Partridge et al. (2007) in adapting the Roback model to an employment growth framework.”
Distance from Urban Agglomeration Economies and Rural Poverty (2008, unknown): “Moreover, Partridge et al. (2007) find that favorable growth effects in nearby urban areas spill over for about 180 km into the countryside.”
Rural-to-Urban Commuting: Three Degrees of Integration (2010, background): “Empirical evidence regarding the effect of urban agglomeration economies on surrounding rural areas has often been cast in the terminology of 'spread' and 'backwash,' the former indicating positive spillovers and the latter negative (Barkley et al. 1996; Henry et al. 1997; Partridge et al. 2007b).”
When are Cities Engines of Growth in China? Spread and Backwash Effects across the Urban Hierarchy (2013, methodology): “In the case of Canada, PARTRIDGE et al. (2007a) found that urban-led growth can extend out 200 kilometres into the countryside, lifting the rural economy.”
Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy (2021, background): “For example, they describe national efforts that distinguish across types of urban areas (Austria, Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and Scotland), as well as those emphasizing rural dimensions (for Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, England, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, and”