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Patrick Kline

Professor of Economics · University of California, Berkeley

Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and director of its Center for Labor Economics, working on labor economics, urban/place-based policy and applied econometrics. Co-Editor of Econometrica.

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Published American Economic Review Online 1 Oct 2025 Published Oct 2025

Place-Based Redistribution

Cecile Gaubert · Patrick Kline · Damian Vergara · Danny Yagan

Should national governments redistribute income to residents of poor areas through place-based transfers, or should redistribution rely solely on place-blind (income-only) taxes? The longstanding view …

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