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Originally Posted by Solon
Have you read the book?
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No, have you? If you have, maybe you can tell me if he cites more peer-reviewed studies than the one by Goetz (and the Basker one it attacks) on page 165.
http://books.google.com/books?id=oq2...sult#PPA159,M1
First, why is he citing the one study that studies Walmart's impact on poverty? The Walmart->poverty causal chain is a mile long with an array of intermediate factors. Why no studies on factors Walmart has a direct impact, i.e., wages and prices?
That's probably why Goetz does doesn't even know why he found what he found. He only has three "possible reasons."
http://cecd.aers.psu.edu/pubs/PovertyResearchWM.pdf
Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly. To keep costs low they may choose areas with lower potential for wage growth (hence slower poverty reduction). That'll bias the results.
Dam apologist is cherrypicking.