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Title: Essays on Economic Spillovers, Labor Markets, and Economic Development

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Location-based policies are widely used across the world in the hope of stimulating particular local economies. This dissertation consists of three chapters of empirical studies that evaluate the efficacy and efficiency of three different location-based government policy interventions. The first chapter studies the impacts of military personnel contractions on various aspects of the economies of counties in the United States. The second chapter estimates the causal effect of international aid on economic growth of recipient developing countries. The third chapter studies a large-scale industrial buildup in China and its impact on long-run regional economic development. Chapter 1: The Local Economic Impacts of Military Personnel Contractions The main challenges to comprehensive evaluations of the effects of local businesses on other parts of the local economy are to establish causality and to calculate the welfare impacts in a unified framework. In the first chapter, I study the effects on county economies of the large . . .

Url: https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/16683

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Authors: Zou, Ben

Institution: University of Maryland

Department: Economics

Advisor: Hellerstein, Judith K

Degree: PhD

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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