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Going NUTS: The effect of EU Structural Funds on regional performance
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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.
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- Becker, S. O., Egger, P. H., & von Ehrlich, M.
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- Journal of Public Economics
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 9-10
- Pages
- 578-590
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- 0047-2727 (ISSN-L)
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- 537
- References
- 37
- FWCI
- 105.02
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- Language
- en
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