A New Way of Revitalizing Distressed Urban Communities? Assessing the Impact of the Federal Empowerment Zone Program

By D. Oakley, Hui-shien Tsao. 2006

110 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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2. A. Hanson
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Citations in the corpus

• Spatial inequalities and policies in South Africa: Place-based or people-centred? (2017, background): “Many governments in Europe and the US became more concerned with treating social and environmental problems in run-down neighbourhoods than with steering growth (Oakley and Tsao, 2006; Cochrane, 2007; Musterd and Ostendorf, 2008).”
• Do spatially targeted redevelopment programs spillover (2013, background): “Oakley and Tsao (2006) find that some EZ areas experienced reduced poverty and unemployment, but overall they find no statistically significant positive outcomes for zone residents.”
• Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets: Evidence from State Enterprise Zones, Federal Empowerment Zones and Federal Enterprise Communities (2010, unknown): “As noted above, Oakley and Tsao (2006) and Busso and Kline (2007) both use first difference in Census tract labor market data and propensity score matching to estimate the effect of being designated as an EMPZ in the first round of the program.”