Place-Based Policies

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 1197-1287

  Neumark, David ^a   Simpson, Helen ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discretionary grants; Employment; Enterprise zones; Higher education; Industrial clusters; Infrastructure; Place based policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916619429     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59531-7.00018-1     Document Type: Chapter

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