Evaluating spatial policies

Gibbons, Stephen; Nathan, Max; Overman, Henry G.

doi:10.3828/tpr.2014.32

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“…26 The report also points to a number of concrete actions that policy makers can take in order to get the most from evaluation of regional or urban policies. These messages also reflect the conclusions by Gibbons, Nathan, and Overman (2014) and the reviews of the WWG. The interested reader may also refer to Oldsman (2004) for a complementary set of policy recommendation in the field of innovation policy.…”

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“…However, targeted or ad-hoc definitions of spatial units might have some shortcomings for policy analysis. As Gibbons, Nathan and Overman (2014) point out, often policy makers are interested in knowing how "their" city or region is performing. Furthermore, the spatial scale at which future policies will be implemented will still be the administrative one.…”

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“…In other words, the argument is made that contradictory (spatial) effects manifest from 'spatially blind' policies. In England, for example, such perverse spatial outcomes from spatially blind investment and policy decisions has led to mounting calls for a national spatial plan (Wong, 2012), which may assist in the evaluation of spatial policies (Gibbons et al, 2014). In light of the above critiques relating to peoplecentred models, active regional development and space-blind policies, the next section considers place-based approaches to local and regional development.…”

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Shifting paradigms: People-centred models, active regional development, space-blind policies and place-based approaches

Bentley

Pugalis

2014

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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There is gathering academic and policy momentum, although not without challenge, critique and ferocious debate, that an apparent 'place-based' mode of activity has emerged. Such a paradigm shift may in part be explained as a response to the deficiencies of 'people-centred' models, active regional development and space-blind policies. This article critically reviews some of the primary literatures relating to these competing, contradictory and also complementary methods of development. The place-based mode of working can be conceptualised as potentially offering the scope, through supportive institutional frameworks and collaborative means of governance, for developing embedded, multi-scalar and multi-annual strategies that are tailored to the complex geographies, capabilities, knowledge-sets, assets and resources of particular places (and networks of places). Whilst appearing to offer a panacea for securing economic growth in a sustainable and socially inclusive manner that releases the potential, creativity and knowledge of local actants, the dominant narrative associated with the place-based approach has not escaped critique and controversy. It is our contention that place-based thinking reflects the continual search for solutions to address territorial, social and economic inequalities and development capacities. Whether it provides a workable policy solution will be contingent on a number of factors, not least spatial context in terms of social, cultural, economic and institutional characteristics. Reflecting the multiplicity of places, place-based approaches, in raising questions about the relationship between scales of operation and institutional structures, are a subset of broader debates and issues concerning not only what works but also where.

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“…We believe that these results have important implications for policy-makers willing to improve the design and the efficiency of such schemes. Finally, many issues arise with the quantitative evaluation of enterprise zone programs, and methods to address them have been recently refined (Gibbons et al, 2014). We develop an estimation strategy that follows closely establishment location behavior, and allows to control finely for endogeneity issues.…”

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The impact of Urban Enterprise Zones on establishment location decisions and labor market outcomes: evidence from France

Mayer¹,

Mayneris²,

Py³

2015

Journal of Economic Geography

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In this article, we study the impact of a French enterprise zone program-the 'Zones Franches Urbaines' (ZFUs) policy-on establishment location decisions and on labor market outcomes. Our main identification strategy, which combines spatial and time differencing, shows that conditional on locating in a municipality that hosts a ZFU, the policy has a positive and sizable impact on the probability to locate in the ZFU part rather than in the non-ZFU part of municipalities. However, the impact is highly heterogeneous across zones, industries and firms. We also show that this positive effect is entirely due to within-municipality diversion effects. Regarding labor market outcomes, the policy has a positive effect on employment, especially for low-wage workers. As for wages, the effect is null for low-wage workers, and negative for highwage ones.

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Evaluating spatial policies

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Making policy evaluation work

Making policy evaluation work

Shifting paradigms: People-centred models, active regional development, space-blind policies and place-based approaches

The impact of Urban Enterprise Zones on establishment location decisions and labor market outcomes: evidence from France

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