Going NUTS: The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance

By Sascha O. Becker, Peter H. Egger, M. V. Ehrlich. Social Science Research Network, 2010

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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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

  1. M. V. Ehrlich
  2. Jesús Crespo Cuaresma
  3. Martin Feldkircher
  4. Peter H. Egger
  5. Sascha O. Becker
  6. G. Doppelhofer
  7. Mark F. J. Steel
  8. J. Fidrmuc

In Political Science and International Relations

  1. M. V. Ehrlich
  2. Peter H. Egger
  3. Sascha O. Becker
  4. Jesús Crespo Cuaresma
  5. Martin Feldkircher
  6. G. Doppelhofer
  7. Henry G. Overman
  8. d'Artis Kancs

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