“…The recent literature tends to focus on lessons from state enterprise zones (e.g., Papke, 1994;Boarnet and Bogart, 1996;Bondonio and Engberg, 2000) or outcomes from the original six Round I EZs (e.g., Rubin, 1994;Peters and Fisher, 2002;Oakley and Tsao, 2006;Busso and Kline, 2008). In regard to the EZs, researchers frequently ask the question, "Do they work?"…”