Article
Spread and Backwash Effects for Non-metropolitan Communities in the U.S.
Journal of Regional Science
(2013)
Abstract
Few studies empirically estimate the effects of metropolitan growth on non-metropolitan communities at a national scale. This paper estimates the growth effects of 276 MSAs on population in 1,988 non-metropolitan communities in the United States from 2000-2007. We estimate the distance for growth spillovers from MSAs to non-metropolitan 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.
Keywords
- spatial,
- econometrics,
- municipalities,
- regional data,
- rural development policy
Disciplines
Publication Date
2013
Citation Information
Joanna Ganning, Kathy Baylis and Bumsoo Lee. "Spread and Backwash Effects for Non-metropolitan Communities in the U.S." Journal of Regional Science (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kathy_baylis/48/