Urban impacts of Federal policies. Vol. 2. Economic development

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:6674302

Vaughan, R J

This report is one of several in a broad study that examines Federal actions in relation to aspects of the urban economic, residential, and fiscal environment. The purpose of this study is to determine capabilities for analyzing the effects of Federal policies on urban areas. Many of the effects are not directly caused by Federal actions but are rather the inadvertent, and even undesired, side effects of policies aimed at specific social and economic goals. For analytic simplicity, the urban economy is conceived of as having three distinct but interacting sectors: (1) the private business sector, (2) the residential sector, and (3) the urban public sector. This permits consideration of the subset of Federal policies that act directly on that sector, the subset of outcomes relevant to that sector, and the interactions among sectors. This report discusses only those Federal policies that directly influence economic development. There are several limitations on the research conducted for this report: (1) no new data are presented and no new empirical analyses were undertaken; emphasis is on synthesizing past findings; (2) the scope of the study limits the level of disaggregation at which the influence of policies can be examined; to the extent that each urban area is unique, a study of Federal policies should examine those effects for each urban area, but this report has attempted to derive general conclusions, by type of urban area; and (3) rather than analyze the separate programs of each Federal bureau, agency, and administration, the study has examined aspects of the private economy upon which groups of policies act. Federal policies affecting the level, growth, and distribution of demand are distinguished from those affecting the price and availability of factors of production. 247 references.

• Research Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6674302
• Report Number(s): R-2028-KF/RC
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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