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The Regional Effects of a Place-based Policy – Causal Evidence from Germany

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions in order to reduce regional inequality. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of regional actors to receive investment grants to identify the causal effects of the policy. We find positive effects of the programme on district-level gross value-added and productivity growth, but no effects on employment and gross wage growth.

01. November 2019

Authors Matthias Brachert Eva Dettmann Mirko Titze

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Keywords

causal analysis place-based policy regression discontinuity design evaluation of place-based policies

JEL Classification

Z00 A11 D61 H20

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