Local economic development, agglomeration economies, and the big push: 100 years of evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 275-331

  Kline, Patrick ^a,b   Moretti, Enrico ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CEPR ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LABOR MARKET; LOCAL ECONOMY; MANUFACTURING; MODEL TEST; PRODUCTIVITY; SPILLOVER EFFECT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892541460     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjt034     Document Type: Article

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