W. Levernier et Jb. White, THE DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY IN GEORGIA PLANTATION BELT - EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCES IN MEASURED POVERTY RATES, The American journal of economics and sociology, 57(1), 1998, pp. 47-70
This paper analyzes the effect of various economic, demographic, human
capital, and locational characteristics on the family poverty rate in
Georgia's 159 counties. The primary focus of the paper is on whether
being located within Georgia's ''Plantation Belt,'' a region that was
primarily a plantation economy until after the Civil War, affects a co
unty's family poverty rate today. Although family poverty rates in the
79 Plantation Belt counties are, on average, substantially higher tha
n in the 80 counties outside the Plantation Belt, the Plantation Belt
counties tend to have a lower poverty rate after economic, demographic
, human capital, and metropolitan location characteristics are control
led for. In addition, separate regressions on the two groups of counti
es indicate that there are substantial differences in the effect that
these factors have on the family poverty rate.