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Introduction / Irwin Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, and Christopher Wimer -- The great recession and economic well-being / Irwin Garfinkel and Natasha Pilkauskas -- The great recession and public and private transfers / Natasha Pilkauskas and Irwin Garfinkel -- The great recession and mothers' and father's health / Janet Currie and Valentina Duque -- The great recession and parents' relationships / Sara McLanahan, Daniel Schneider, and Kristin Harknett -- The great recession and nonresident father involvement / Ronald Mincy and Elia de la Cruz -- The great recession and mothers' and fathers' parenting / William Schneider, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Jane Waldfogel -- The great recession and children's well-being / William Schneider, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Jane WaldfogelIndex -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface - David B. Grusky, Christopher Wimer, and Bruce Western -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Consequences of the Great Recession - David B. Grusky, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer -- Chapter 2. The Roots of the Great Recession - Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein -- Part II: Economic Effects: The Labor Market, Income and Poverty, and Wealth and Housing -- Chapter 3. Job Loss and Unemployment - Michael Hout, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth -- Chapter 4. Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession - Timothy M. Smeeding, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon, and Esra Burak -- Chapter 5. How Much Wealth Was Destroyed in the Great Recession? - Edward N. Wolff, Lindsay A. Owens, and Esra Burak -- Part III. Social Effects: Consumption, Attitudes, and Family -- Chapter 6. An Analysis of Trends, Perceptions, and Distributional Effects in Consumption - Ivaylo D. Petev, Luigi Pistaferri, and Itay Saporta-Eksten -- Chapter 7. The Suprisingly Weak Effect of Recessions on Public Opinion - Lane Kenworthy and Lindsay A. Owens -- Chapter 8. The Great Recession's Influence on Fertility, Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation - S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, and Christopher Wimer -- Part IV. The Collective Response: The Government and Charitable Giving -- Chapter 9. The Federal Stimulus Programs and Their Effects - Gary Burtless and Tracy Gordon -- Chapter 10. Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier? - Rob Reich, Christopher Wimer, Shazad Hohmed, and Sharda Jambulapati -- Index.

Poverty has a strong relationship to geography in the United States. Previous research has found that rural areas have higher average poverty rates than urban areas, but the new supplemental poverty measure (SPM) has shown in recent years that urban areas have higher average poverty. In this article, we analyze poverty trends from 1967 to 2014 in rural and urban America, using the improved SPM metrics. We find a dramatic decline in poverty in rural areas, and also show that the geographic adjustment of the poverty threshold in the SPM (which lowers poverty thresholds in less expensive areas and raises them in more expensive areas) is an important explanatory factor. We also find that changes in the demographic and economic characteristics of rural and urban residents help to explain the decline. Last, we investigate whether migration of the poor between rural and urban areas helps to account for differential poverty trends, but we find little evidence in support of that hypothesis.