Title: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM
Abstract: The Model Cities Program (1966-1972) was a federal initiative to improve livelihoods in American cities by channeling federal funding into their most blighted neighborhoods. Forty years later, the data is available to evaluate the program’s long-term effects. Utilizing a difference-in-differences approach and decennial U.S. Census data, I find that the Model Cities Program had very little impact on many of its targeted areas. Nonetheless, it appears that the program did reduce outmigration from the most blighted areas of target cities, when compared to cities that did not receive funding.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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