Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from Germany

Eva Dettmann, Matthias Brachert, Mirko Titze

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants to identify the causal effects of the investment grant on regional outcomes. We find positive effects for regional gross value-added and productivity growth, but no effects for employment and gross wage growth.

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Year of publication:	May 2016
Authors:	Dettmann, Eva ; Brachert, Matthias ; Titze, Mirko
Publisher:	Halle (Saale), Germany : Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
Subject:	evaluation \| industrial policy \| regression discontinuity design \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Industriepolitik \| Industrial policy \| Kausalanalyse \| Causality analysis \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Regressionsanalyse \| Regression analysis

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (40 Seiten, 5,26 MB) Diagramme
Series:	IWH-Diskussionspapiere. - Halle, S. : IWH, ISSN 2194-2188, ZDB-ID 2836591-4. - Vol. no. 18/2016
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/142019 [Handle]
Classification:	A11 - Role of Economics; Role of Economists; Market for Economists ; D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. General ; Z00 - Other Special Topics. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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