<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parker, Emily</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tach, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robertson, Cassandra</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022-05-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">125-154</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.06</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The U.S. federal government has invested considerable resources in place-based programs to improve local economies, amenities, and infrastructure. Although urban place-based policies have received the most attention, place-based approaches have long been central to efforts addressing rural poverty as well. Using a novel dataset, we document a substantial increase in place-based funding to rural counties from 1990 to 2015. We then assess the association between exposure to place-based funding and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. We find that living in counties that received more place-based funding is associated with higher educational attainment and greater earnings, but only for those who migrated in adulthood. We conclude that place-based investment may improve economic opportunity via geographic mobility for rural American youth.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>