Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - 2017
beneficial effects such job growth or poverty reduction. In contrast, Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011, hereafter HSIS …) present evidence that state and federal enterprise zones (EZs) established in the 1990s substantially reduced poverty. However …, their estimates of the effects of EZs in reducing poverty are badly overstated for two reasons. First, HSIS have a …