Category Archives: Local variation in benefits

Prevailing metro area growth trends: effects on economic development benefits of early childhood programs

Posted on February 9, 2011 by timbartik

I am exploring in a series of posts how a metro area’s characteristics might alter the economic development benefits of the area’s investments in early childhood programs or business incentives. This is important because we want to see whether these … Continue reading →

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Metro area size and business incentives

Posted on February 8, 2011 by timbartik

In a previous post, I explored how the economic development benefits of a local area’s investment in early childhood programs might vary with the local area’s population size. In today’s post, I explore how metro area size might affect the … Continue reading →

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Metro area size: effects on the economic development benefits of early childhood programs

Posted on February 4, 2011 by timbartik

My book, Investing in Kids, provides evidence that a state or local government’s investment in high-quality early childhood programs will have a payoff for that state or local area. That payoff is what I call “economic development benefits”: higher per … Continue reading →

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