Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program
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- Busso, Matias & Kline, Patrick, 2008. "Do Local Economic Development Programs Work? Evidence from the Federal Empowerment Zone Program," Working Papers 36, Yale University, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Program evaluation; Local economic development; Empowerment zones;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
- R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2008-02-09 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-LAB-2008-02-09 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-URE-2008-02-09 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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