Place-Based Redistribution

We thank David Atkin, Alan Auerbach, Roger Gordon, Nathan Hendren, Louis Kaplow, Emmanuel Saez, Ben Sprung-Keyser, Nancy Stokey, Juan Carlos Suarez-Serrato, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Matthew Weinzierl for helpful discussions and Akcan Balkir, Jimmy Chin, Katie Donnelly Moran, Clancy Green, and Dustin Swonder for outstanding research assistance. We thank Patrick Kennedy for a crosswalk from Census tracts to Empowerment Zones. Thanks also go to seminar participants at Yale, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, TSE, Dartmouth, Brown, Wharton, the Harris School, the Paris Trade Seminar, Oslo, the Women in Macro Conference, the Paris-London Public Economics Conference, the NBER Cities, Labor Markets, and the Global Economy Conference, the 2020 UEA meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute. This research was funded by the Berkeley Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Cecile Gaubert acknowledges support from NSF CAREER grant #1941917. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• January 12, 2021