Hunter Lori M, Boardman Jason D, Saint Onge Jarron M
Department of Sociology, Institute of Behavioral Science, Program on Environment and Behavior, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rural Sociol. 2005 Dec;70(4):452-469. doi: 10.1526/003601105775012714.
Population growth in rural areas characterized by high levels of natural amenities has recently received substantial research attention. A noted concern with amenity-driven rural population growth is its potential to raise local costs-of-living while yielding only low-wage service sector employment for long-term residents. The work presented here empirically models long-term rural residents' economic well-being, making use of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. In general, the results suggest that long-term rural families residing in high-growth amenity and recreation areas tend to have higher annual incomes than do their counterparts in non-growth amenity/recreation areas, regardless of the sex, race, or age of the family head. However, higher costs-of-living in these areas supplant any relative gains in income. As such, these analyses provide empirical evidence of patterns inferred by earlier anecdotal evidence and case studies.
以丰富自然便利设施为特征的农村地区人口增长问题近来受到了大量研究关注。一个与便利设施驱动的农村人口增长相关的显著担忧是，它有可能推高当地生活成本，却只为长期居民提供低薪服务业就业机会。本文所呈现的研究利用收入动态面板研究的纵向数据，对长期农村居民的经济福祉进行了实证建模。总体而言，结果表明，居住在高增长便利设施和娱乐区域的长期农村家庭，无论户主的性别、种族或年龄如何，其年收入往往高于非增长便利设施/娱乐区域的同类家庭。然而，这些地区较高的生活成本抵消了收入方面的任何相对收益。因此，这些分析为早期轶事证据和案例研究推断出的模式提供了实证依据。
