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Absence of Age-Income Correlation in Ten Rural South Dakota Counties: Real Capital Outflow or Self-selection Bias?
Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy
  • Daren Junker
  • Meredith Redlin
  • David Olson
  • Gary Aguiar
Keywords
  • Age,
  • Income,
  • Rural,
  • Life Course Theory,
  • Rural South Dakota
Abstract

Previous research establishes a positive correlation between age and income during the working years of 18 to 65. Survey data from the first 10 communities in a development project in South Dakota do not exhibit this correlation. Census data is examined for the 10 counties involved to determine whether the correlation is absent countywide or if self-selection bias may have produced this result. With income distributions matching their respective counties and working age distributions that do not, factors that might skew self-selection in the observed manner are examined from a life-course perspective.

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Citation Information
Daren Junker, Meredith Redlin, David Olson and Gary Aguiar. "Absence of Age-Income Correlation in Ten Rural South Dakota Counties: Real Capital Outflow or Self-selection Bias?" (2012)
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