Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change

Daniel T. Lichter; Kenneth M. Johnson

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.05

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 2 88-114

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Lichter, Daniel T., and Kenneth M. Johnson 2025. “Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(2): 88–114. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.2.05. Direct correspondence to: Daniel T. Lichter, at dtl28@cornell.edu, Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy, 3226 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Daniel T. Lichter^a and
Kenneth M. Johnson^b

^aFerris Family professor emeritus in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, United States
^bProfessor of sociology and senior demographer at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire, United States