Economists and city leaders have long confronted a tradeoff between timeliness and accuracy when searching for a measure of the economic performance of cities. Personal income is a good measure of economic growth, but these estimates for metropolitan statistical areas are only available with a...

Louisville, Kentucky, has one of the oldest and largest enterprise zones (EZs) in the United States, yet until recently, the program had not been independently evaluated. Perhaps because no clearly superior evaluation methodology has emerged in the literature, the efficacy of EZ programs around...