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Evaluating Decentralized Policies

A Method to Compare the Performance of Economic Development Programmes Across Different Regions or States

Daniele Bondonio

University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, db92{at}andrew.cmu.edu

This article proposes an empirical method to evaluate decentralized economic development programmes with heterogeneous characteristics implemented in different regions or states. The evaluation design developed in the article is a comparative analysis that operationalizes differences in regional policy features and controls for exogenous factors that may affect outcomes independently from the programme intervention. The proposed method is illustrated and tested through the evaluation of the US Enterprise Zone programmes. The results of the analysis show that the proposed evaluation design is an effective tool for turning the heterogeneity of decentralized economic development programmes from a threat to the validity of the analysis into a great opportunity for testing the effectiveness of a variety of region- (or state-)specific policy implementation features.

Key Words: comparative evaluation • decentralized policies • economic development programmes • longitudinal data • propensity score

Evaluation, Vol. 8, No. 1, 101-124 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1358902002008001738
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