Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …

. Finally, there is little evidence that evaluation findings are used for decision-making processes, funding allocation and the …By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation …