Episode 99: Andrew Garin on the Long-Run Effects of Public Investment

Andrew Garin is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

The paper discussed in this episode is 'The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility’

Papers mentioned in this episode include:

Chetty, R., & Hendren, N. (2018). The impacts of neighborhoods on intergenerational mobility I: Childhood exposure effects. The quarterly journal of economics, 133(3), 1107-1162.

Greenstone, M., Hornbeck, R., & Moretti, E. (2010). Identifying agglomeration spillovers: Evidence from winners and losers of large plant openings. Journal of political economy, 118(3), 536-598.

Kline, P., & Moretti, E. (2014). Local economic development, agglomeration economies, and the big push: 100 years of evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Quarterly journal of economics, 129(1), 275-331.