Walmart and Values: Painting the Town Red?

Carden, Art; Courtemanche, Charles; Meiners, Jeremy

doi:10.2202/1469-3569.1271

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“…However, Sobel and Dean (2008) found that Walmart has not had a long-run impact on the overall size and profitability of the small business sector in the United States, suggesting that the increase in poverty (if it exists) may come from other sectors. Other studies have looked at the impact Walmart has had on body mass index (Courtemanche and Carden 2011), social capital (Goetz andRupasingha 2006, Carden, Courtemanche andMeiners 2009a), leisure activities (Carden and Courtemanche 2009) and traditional values (Carden, Courtemanche and Meiners 2009b).…”

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Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

Slade

2017

Real Estate Economics

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This study examined the effect of a new Walmart store on nearby U.S. urban land prices and found that, within one quarter mile of a new Walmart store locale, land prices increased by almost 39% over the four‐year development time period. Supercenters and commercial land sales were instrumental in driving the positive price effects. Robustness tests found a positive land price effect with other big‐box stores, suggesting that the land price effect was not limited to Walmart stores, but in fact, was a big‐box store effect.

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Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

Slade

2017

Real Estate Economics

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“…The authors attributed these results to a general withdrawal of individuals affected by the arrival of the chain, or greater apathy. Carden, Courtemanche, and Meiners (2009a, 2009b) reexamine the hypotheses tested by Goetz and Rupasingha and focus on the effect of WalMart on social capital–related factors such as membership in clubs, religious participation, and time spent with friends, using Census data as well as the DDB Needham Lifestyle survey, which was also used by Putnam (2000). They conclude that there is no robust or consistent WalMart effect on social capital: some measures are being positively affected, whereas others decline.…”

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WalMart and Local Economic Development

Bonanno

Goetz

2012

Economic Development Quarterly

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This article reviews the literature that evaluates WalMart’s impacts on local economies. The authors first describe the methods used to account for potential reverse causality of WalMart’s store location decisions, and then they discuss the literature assessing the company’s effect on three aspects of community life: (a) retail (and nonretail) businesses, across large- and small-sized stores and in different business environments; (b) retail workers, wages, and types of jobs; and (c) producer and consumer welfare through the company’s price-decreasing effect and other potential indirect effects. Last, articles focusing on a broad spectrum of local conditions that could be affected by the company, including poverty rates, social capital, food insecurity, policy effectiveness, and obesity are reviewed. For each dimension, evidence is found of both positive and negative effects, suggesting that we are still far from truly understanding the net effect of WalMart on local economies, let alone the overall consequences in the long run.

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“…Goetz and Rupasingha () find empirically that Wal‐Mart has an independent effect on various civic activities in counties, whereas Carden, Courtemanche, and Meiners () find more equivocal effects of Wal‐Mart on local culture and social capital.…”

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Social Capital, Religion,Wal‐Mart, and Hate Groups inAmerica^*

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Rupasingha

Loveridge

2012

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. The recent surge in hate group activity is a concern to many citizens and policymakers. We examine the roles of socioeconomic factors measured at the county level that are hypothesized to account for the presence of such groups, including social capital and religious affiliations. Methods. We estimate a Poisson regression model using counts of hate groups provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center for each of the over 3,000 U.S. counties. Our regressors include a wider set of variables than has been considered in previous studies, such as Jefferson and Pryor (1999). Results. Our approach produces a better statistical fit than that in Jefferson and Pryor's paper, and the additional regressors contribute significantly to our understanding of hate groups. Conclusion. Both social capital stocks and religious affiliation exert an independent and statistically significant influence on the number of hate groups, as does the presence of Wal-Mart stores, holding other factors constant.

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Walmart and Values: Painting the Town Red?

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

WalMart and Local Economic Development

Social Capital, Religion,Wal‐Mart, and Hate Groups inAmerica^*

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Walmart and Values: Painting the Town Red?

Cited by 8 publications

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Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

Big‐Box Stores and Urban Land Prices: Friend or Foe?

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Social Capital, Religion,Wal‐Mart, and Hate Groups inAmerica*

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