Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Jed Kolko, David Neumark

NBER Working Paper No. 15206
Issued in August 2009

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We thank Marco Anderson, Eric Becker, Amy Ewing, Toni Feinstein, Matthew Gelbman, Jennifer Graves, Ethan Jennings, Ingrid Lefebvre-Hoang, Mark Vasquez, Smith Williams, and especially Marisol Cuellar-Mejia for outstanding research assistance. We also thank Daria Burnes, Frank Luera, Toni Symonds, and three anonymous referees for helpful comments and discussions. Neumark gratefully acknowledges support for his work on enterprise zones from the Kauffman Foundation. The views expressed are the authors’ alone, and do not represent the views of the Kauffman Foundation or of PPIC. Neumark is also Research Associate at the NBER, Bren Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, and Research Fellow at IZA. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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