Place Based Policies for Promoting Economic Development: Assessing the Evidence

To synthesize the results of previous research and to highlight gaps that need to be addressed in future work, the NBER plans a research conference on the subject of place-based policies – broadly construed. The goal of this project is to bring together researchers studying all of these policies, and to encourage them to draw on their research expertise to provide insight into one or more of the core questions underlying place-based policies.