Essays in Low-Income Community Development
dc.contributor.advisor | Bayer, Patrick J | |
dc.contributor.author | Garber, Chelsea | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-09T17:59:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-27T08:17:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.department | Economics | |
dc.description.abstract | Over the last several decades the federal government has taken a variety of approaches to promote investment in low-income communities. This dissertation examines three different federal place-based policies designed to encourage private investment in statutorily defined low-income communities: the Community Reinvestment Act, the New Markets Tax Credit, and the Opportunity Zone Program. In the second chapter, a novel shock to credit supply is proposed to investigate bank responses to fair lending standards. Results show a modest effect of regulatory assessment areas on aggregate small business lending at the county level. In the third chapter, a regression discontinuity design suggests that federally-subsidized investment projects have little effect on individual tracts. This essay also offers critiques of a popular quasi-experiment and proposals for more precise identification of treatment effects. The fourth chapter turns to a description of the most recent federal development program. The paper, co-authored with Ofer Eldar, argues that while economic distress played a role in designation, political favoritism was also a critical factor in the selection of the Opportunity Zones. | |
dc.identifier.uri | ||
dc.subject | Economics | |
dc.title | Essays in Low-Income Community Development | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
duke.embargo.months | 23.572602739726026 |
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