People, places, and public policy: Some simple welfare economics of local economic development programs

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 629-662

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

place based policies; spatial equilibrium; subsidies; taxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905706173     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041024     Document Type: Article

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