Pete Nelson

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Professor Nelson's research focuses largely on rural restructuring in the United States, domestic migration, and the intersection of economy and culture.

One of Prof. Nelson's latest papers, "Migration and the regional redistribution of nonearnings income in the United States: metropolitan and nonmetropolitan perspectives from 1975 to 2000," as published in Environment and Planning A in 2005, can be found here.

Prof. Nelson has also worked extensively with undergraduate research assistants on publications. in Growth and Change, published in the fall of 2004, he published a paper with then undergraduates James Nicholson and Hope Stege entitled "The Baby Boom and Nonmetropolitan Population Change, 1975 - 1990."

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