TY  - BOOK
AU  - Percoco,Marco
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Regional Perspectives on Policy Evaluation
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Regional Science,
SN  - 9783319095196
AV  - HT388 
U1  - 338.9 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Economics
KW  - Geography
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Europe
KW  - Regional economics
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Regional/Spatial Science
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - European Integration
KW  - Economic Geography
N1  - Introduction -- Regression Discontinuity Design: When Series Interrupt -- Propensity Score Matching: When Units Meet -- Difference-in-Differences: When Time and Space Matter -- A Synthetic Control Approach to Evaluate Local Policies -- Methods for Ex Ante Evaluation
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09519-6
ER  -