The Economic Impact on Local Areas of the Program of the Economic Development Administration: Some Additional Evidence

摘要

The objective of this work is to extend the inquiry into the economic impact of programs of the Economic Development Administration in three directions. These are as follows: (1) an extension of the regression analysis contained in the original report with the objective of obtaining additional evidence on the extent to which EDA assistance has contributed to the improved economic growth performance of assisted counties; (2) a county-by-county analysis of changes in pre-aid vs. during-aid relative income growth rates in order to provide some evidence on the pervasiveness of the improvements in relative growth rates found in the original report; and (3) an outline of a procedure to examine the relationship between migration, EDA assistance and economic growth.