@article{Jolliffe:334716,
      recid = {334716},
      author = {Jolliffe, Dean},
      title = {Comparisons of Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Poverty During  the 1990s},
      address = {2003-06},
      number = {2487-2023-679},
      series = {Rural Development Research Report No. 96},
      pages = {23},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {While the greater incidence of poverty in nonmetro  relative to metro areas is well documented, there is little  research as to whether it is deeper or more severe in  nonmetro areas.  This report examines metro-nonmetro  differences in U. S. poverty rates, using data from Current  Population Surveys (1991-2000) and poverty measures that  are sensitive to income distribution.  The standard  practice of examining only the headcount, or incidence, of  poverty provides the expected result that poverty is  greater in nonmetro areas in all 10 tens years of the  1990s.  The poverty gap index, which measures the depth of  poverty, indicates that the difference in this measure of  poverty is statistically significant in 6 of the 10 years.   When the squared poverty gap index, a measure of severity,  is examined, the estimate of nonmetro poverty is greater  than the metro measure in only 3 of the 10 years. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334716},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334716},
}