Busso, Matias; Gregory, Jesse; Kline, Patrick - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 2, pp. 897-947
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. Using rejected and future applicants to the EZ program as controls, we find...