ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
The Journal of American Economic Revitalization

Volume 13, Number 1, February 1999

CONTENTS

FOCUS SECTION

Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Local Development Policy Evaluation
Laura A. Reese and David Fasenfest 3

The Employment Fulcrum: Evaluating Local Economic Performance
Robert A. Beauregard 8

Entrepreneurial Neighborhood Initiatives: Political Capital
in Community Development
Robyne S. Turner 15

Toward an Empowerment Zone Evaluation
Noah Temaner Jenkins and Michael /. J. Bennett 23

Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Normative Perspective
Terry F. Buss and Laura C. Yancer 29

Moving Beyond the Modeling of Regional Economic Growth:
A Study of How Income Is Distributed to Rural Households
John C. Leatherman and David W. Marcouiller 38

When Is a Cost Really a Benefit? Local Welfare Effects and Employment
Creation in the Evaluation of Economic Development Programs
Daniel Felsenstein and Joseph Persky 46

Directing Benefits to Need: Evaluating the Distributive Consequences
of Urban Economic Development
Jill L Too and Richard C. Feiock 55

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

The Contribution of Home-Based Business Income
to Rural and Urban Economies
Barbara R. Rowe, George W. Haynes, and Kathryn Stafford 66

INDUSTRY STUDY

Just-in-Time Intervention: Economic Development Policy for Apparel
Manufacturing in San Francisco
Karen Chappie 78

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
VOL. 13, NO. 2, May 1999

FORUM

"Every Breath You Take . . . ":
The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in Southern California
James L Sadd, Manuel Pastor, Jr„ J. Thomas Boer, and Lori D. Snyder 107

RESPONSE

Comments on " Every Breath You Take ...":
The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in Southern California"
William M. Bowen 124

REJOINDER

Response to Comments by William M. Bowen
James L. Sadd, Manuel Pastor Jr., J. Thomas Boer, and Lori D, Snyder 135

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Metropolitan Development as a Complex System:
A New Approach to Sustainability
Judith E. Innes and David E. Booher 141

The "More Means More" Assumption: Congruence
Versus Contingency in Local Economic Development Research
Michael McGuire 157


The Effect of State Appropriations on
Export-Related Employment in Manufacturing
Timothy J.Wilkinson 172

Regional Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sector:
Integrated Shift-Share and Data Envelopment Analysis
Mustafa Dine and Kingsley E, Haynes 183

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