Policies for Place offers resources to design local economic development policies that reduce costs per job created, increase benefits per job, and expand those benefits to low- and moderate-income groups.
Bartik Benefit-Cost Model of Business Incentives
Evaluate tax breaks provided by state and local governments to businesses to encourage local job growth.
VIEW MOREPanel Database on Incentives and Taxes
Find comprehensive information on state and local tax incentives for new firms from 1990 to 2015, across industries and states.
VIEW MORETop Five Must-Reads
Key findings show business incentives are large, often poorly targeted, vary widely across states, and have tripled since 1990 but slowed in recent years.
An Introduction to the Bartik Benefit-Cost Model of Business Incentives
In evaluating incentives, we should consider both the positive effects and the negative effects.
Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity
In this book, common claims about incentives are debunked and better ideas and models are uncovered.
Improving Economic Development Incentives
State and local governments give away more than $30 billion a year in incentives that create zero jobs.
Reimagining Business Incentives to do More with Less
Rather than focusing economic development policy on tax incentive “megadeals,” states should expand customized business and job access services to residents of distressed places.