Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives.

ABSTRACT: I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile a detailed database of incentives, matching this with TV series and feature film data from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and Studio System, and establishment and employment data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and Country Business Patterns. I compare these outcomes in states before and after they adopt incentives, relative to similar states that did not adopt incentives over the same time period (a panel difference-in-differences). I find that TV series filming increases by 6.3 to 55.4% (at most 1.50 additional TV series) after incentive adoption. However, there is no mea

SUBMITTER: Button P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6663109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature