Who gets left behind by left behind places?

Data Information

Database containing the Left Behind index and category for Census Designated Places (CDP) in the United States from the 2023 paper "Who gets left behind by left behind places?"

The first 6 columns of the file "LBH_Places_Index.csv" contain geospatial join information to link the table to polygon files provided by NHGIS. The next three columns contain information on the place, name, and Census region of the CDP. Following the place information are columns containing the index rank (see Equation 1 of the paper) for 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020. Finally, the last two columns contain the flags for if a CDP has changed left behindness (Enter, Exit, Both, None) and its current left behind category (Recently LB, Long-term LB, No longer LB, and Never LB). Index database derived from Opportunity Insights (Chetty et al. 2020) and IPUMS NHGIS (Manson et al. 2023).

Main Text

Connor, Dylan S., Aleksander K Berg, Tom Kemeny, and Peter J. Kedron. 2023. “Who Gets Left behind by Left behind Places?” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, September. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad031.

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the comments and support of our editors and anonymous reviewers at the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, participants at the CJRES online conference on ‘Left behind places and what can be done about them’, and the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC) at Arizona State University. Partial funding has been provided through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R21 HD098717-02. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Partial funding for this work was also provided through the Humans, Disasters and the Built Environment program of the National Science Foundation, award number 1924670. We also thank Lori Hunter, Johannes Uhl, Catherine Talbot, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Laura Tach, Rachel Franklin, Kevin McHugh, and audiences at the 2023 meetings of the Population Association of America and the American Association of Geographers, the Spatial Analysis and Data (SAD) Seminar, and the audience of the colloquium at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.