Assessing the incidence and efficiency of a prominent place based policy
By: Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory, Patrick M. Kline
Contributors: Gregory, Jesse F.; Kline, Patrick; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16096; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16096.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database.  To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model in which the distortions generated by place-based policies depend upon a set of reduced form elasticities which our empirical work centers on estimating.  Using rejected and future applicants to the EZ program as controls we find that EZ designation substantially increased employment in zone neighborhoods, particularly for zone residents.  The program also generated wage increases for workers from zone neighborhoods worth approximately $320M per year.  Based upon estimates of the number of jobs created for zone residents, we find that EZ employment credits generated deadweight costs equal to (at most) seven percent of their flow cost"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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