| Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation 2014 Edition Contributor(s): Percoco, Marco (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319095188 ISBN-13: 9783319095189 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Urban & Regional - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | International - Economics |
| Dewey: 330.9 |
| Series: Springerbriefs in Regional Science |
| Physical Information: 0.14" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.23 lbs) 52 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The evaluation of public policies is of paramount importance for modern policy making, especially in a period of severe budget constraints. The literature has proposed several methods to deal with the issue of causality and counterfactual evaluation in a variety of contexts, with an increasing attention to the local dimension. The book aims to present the state-of-the-art of evaluation techniques with a special focus on the consideration of geographical and spatial effects into existing methodologies (such as propensity score matching, regression discontinuity, difference-in-difference). Furthermore, the volume highlights how strict the identification conditions for models with spatial effects are and proposes instrumental variables as a technique able to circumvent the issue. Finally, some insights into the emerging literature on ex ante evaluation are offered with respect to EU Cohesion Policy. |