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“Asymmetry in Municipal Government Responses in Growing vs. Shrinking Counties with Focus on Capital Spending,” a working paper co-authored by Biswa Das, an assistant professor in community and regional planning and community development specialist at Iowa State University, and Mark Skidmore, a professor of economics at Michigan State University, has been published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, November 2017. The study compares capital spending during 1972-2012 in municipalities across the United States and examines the asymmetry between growing and declining areas across the nation.