Going NUTS: The effect of EU Structural Funds on regional performance

被引：282

作者：

Becker, Sascha O. ^{[2
]}

Egger, Peter H. ^{[1
]}

von Ehrlich, Maximilian ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Zurich, Switzerland

[2] U Warwick, Warwick, England

[3] Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Munich, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 2010年 / 94卷 / 9-10期

关键词：

Structural funds; Regional growth; Regression-discontinuity design; Quasi-randomized experiment; EUROPEAN-UNION; IMPACT; CONVERGENCE; POLICY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.06.006

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a per capita GDP level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits the discrete jump in the probability of EU transfer receipt at the 75% threshold for identification of causal effects of Objective 1 treatment on outcome such as economic growth of EU regions. We find positive per capita GDP growth effects of Objective 1 transfers, but no employment growth effects. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：578 / 590

页数：13

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