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How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm: Which Land Grant graduates live in rural areas?

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  • Artz, Georgeanne M.
  • Yu, Li

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This article analyzes factors related to the rural/urban residence choice of college-educated adults using a unique data set resulting from a 2007 stratified random sample survey of Iowa State University alumni graduating between 1982 and 2006. Rural origin is the most significant predictor of rural residence choice. An important finding is that nonpecuniary goals and values such as family tradition, being respected by friends, and building a business for one's children to inherit have more weight with Iowa State University alumni who reside in rural areas after college than do monetary returns. This implies thatincentives such as tax breaks will not work, or will be too expensive, to attract or retain college graduates in rural areas. Second, entrepreneurship rates are higher among Iowa State University alumni in rural areas and rural entrepreneurs tend to have local or, at least, rural roots. This finding lends support to the increasingly popular "grow your strategies" for ruralbusiness development.

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  • Artz, Georgeanne M. & Yu, Li, 2011. "How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm: Which Land Grant graduates live in rural areas?," Staff General Research Papers Archive 37647, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:37647
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    1. Mark D. Partridge & Dan S. Rickman & M. Rose Olfert & Ying Tan, 2015. "When Spatial Equilibrium Fails: Is Place-Based Policy Second Best?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(8), pages 1303-1325, August.
    2. Georgeanne M. Artz & Liesl Eathington & Jasmine Francois & Melvin Masinde & Peter F. Orazem, 2020. "Churning in Rural and Urban Retail Markets," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 50(1), pages 110-126.
    3. M. Rose Olfert & Mark D. Partridge, 2010. "Best Practices in Twenty‐First‐Century Rural Development and Policy," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(2), pages 147-164, June.
    4. Ann Marie Fiore & Linda S. Niehm & Jessica L. Hurst & Jihyeong Son & Amrut Sadachar & Daniel W. Russell & David Swenson & Christopher Seeger, 2015. "Will They Stay or Will They Go? Community Features Important in Migration Decisions of Recent University Graduates," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 29(1), pages 23-37, February.
    5. Georgeanne M. Artz & Zizhen Guo & Peter F. Orazem, 2016. "Location, Location, Location: Place-Specific Human Capital, Rural Firm Entry and Firm Survival," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications apr-winter-2016-1, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
    6. Li Yu & Xundong Yin & Xiang Zheng & Wenwei Li, 2017. "Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 58(2), pages 341-374, March.
    7. Artz, Georgeanne M. & Eathington, Liesl & Francois, Jasmine & Masinde, Melvin & Orazem, Peter F., 2017. "Sorting into and out of Rural and Urban Retail Markets," ISU General Staff Papers 201709140700001034, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    8. M. Olfert & Murray Jelinski & Dimitrios Zikos & John Campbell, 2012. "Human capital drift up the urban hierarchy: veterinarians in Western Canada," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 49(2), pages 551-570, October.
    9. Li Yu & Georgeanne M. Artz, 2019. "Does rural entrepreneurship pay?," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 53(3), pages 647-668, October.

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