The impact of varying per capita intensities of EU funds on regional growth : estimating dose response treatment effects through statistical matching : final report. Work package 14d : propensity score matching

As part of the Ex post evaluation of the 2007-2013 programming period of the European Cohesion Policy this report deals with the impact of the varying per capita intensities of EU funds on regional growth. The works was separated in three tasks. The first one focuses on the analysis of how the intensity variation of EU structural funds affected regional growth in the EU-15 regions in the 1994-2006 period. Task 2 deals with the impact of EU cohesion policy on regional growth in the EU-27 regions. Task 3 is wider because it tackles the analysis of cohesion policy effects for all European countries, considering data up to 2013. Thanks to statistical methods impacts are estimated. The tasks involved using a counterfactual impact evaluation design, implementing with propensity score matching (PSM) and generalized propensity score matching (GPSM).