Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?

Emily Parker; Laura Tach; Cassandra Robertson

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.06

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 4 125-154

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 12, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Parker, Emily, Laura Tach, and Cassandra Robertson. 2022. “Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(4): 125–54. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.06. This research was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. We thank Kathryn Edin, Ajay Chaudry, Alexandra Cooperstock, Sam Dodini, Craig Pollak, Eva Rosen, and Benjamin Segal for their contributions to the place-based data used in this project. We are grateful to Kyla Chasalow for her research assistance and to the staff at the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative for their administrative support of this project. Direct correspondence to: Emily Parker, at parkerem@umich.edu, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, United States; Laura Tach, at lauratach@cornell.edu, 2310 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Emily Parker^a,
Laura Tach^b and
Cassandra Robertson^c

^aPostdoctoral fellow with the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, United States
^bAssociate professor of sociology and public policy at Cornell University, United States
^cSenior policy and research manager at New America, United States