Ep.9 – Michelle Layser, How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality

Michelle Layser, How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality

Michelle Layser is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law and the author of How Place-Based Tax Incentives Can Reduce Geographic Inequality, forthcoming in the Tax Law Review.

Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, joins as guest co-host.

Appendices:

Michelle Layser: a forthcoming issue of the Fordham Urban Law Journal focusing on opportunity zones.

Greg Shill: It’s Time to Move On From Community Consensus by Jeremy Levine.

Jeff Lin: Neighborhood Dynamics and the Distribution of Opportunity by Dionissi Aliprantis and Daniel R. Carroll and Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration by Ellora Derenoncourt.

Cailin Slattery: What Determines Where Opportunity Knocks? Political Affiliation in the Selection of Opportunity Zones? by Mary Margaret Frank, Jeffery Hoops, and Rebecca Lester.

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Producer: Schuyler Pals.

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