Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets: Evidence from State Enterprise Zones, Federal Empowerment Zones and Federal Enterprise Communities

By John C. Ham. 2010

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Place-based tax exemptions and displacement effects: An evaluation of the Zones Franches Urbaines program☆ (2013, background): “In a recent contribution, Ham et al. (2011) re-examine all US programs for a wider set of outcomes and nd more encouraging results for place-based policies. As Hellerstein & Neumark (2011) put it, most existing evaluations face two kinds of issues.”
People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs (2014, unknown): “…conflicting results, with Neumark & Kolko (2010) concluding that the job-creating benefits of the California enterprise zones are negligible but Ham et al. (2011) concluding from an analysis of a broader national sample of enterprise zones that their effects are substantial.21 To some extent,…”
Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls (2016, background): “In particular, enterprise and empowerment zone programs have received renewed interest in recent years (see Busso, Gregory, & Kline, 2013; Ham et al., 2012; Gobillon, Magnac, & Selod, 2012).”
Mismatch Unemployment and the Geography of Job Search (2018, background): “, 2010), or the impact of place-based policies (Neumark and Kolko, 2010; Ham et al., 2011; Gobillon et al., 2012; Givord et al., 2013; Busso et al., 2013).”
Do spatially targeted redevelopment programs spillover (2013, methodology): “…redevelopment policies, most of the previous literature ignores the potential for these programs to cause spillover effects in neighboring areas; with the notable exceptions of Dye and Merriman (2000), Weber et al. (2007), Chirinko and Wilson (2008), Neumark and Kolko (2010), and Ham et al. (2011).”
Location-based tax incentives: Evidence from India (2017, background): “Wang (2013) is the only other paper in a developing country and See Munshi and Rosenzweig (2009), Topalova (2010), and Hnatkovska and Lahiri (2013). The deadweight loss in this setting where workers are not very mobile will be low and most of the benefits will accrue to local workers.”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, background): “Bester et al. (2011) discuss estimation of heteroskedasticityautocorrelation consistent standard errors and generalized cluster procedures for conducting inference with spatially correlated errors when clusters are not independent and the number of clusters is fixed but the number of observations…”