This paper estimates the direct and spillover effects of two matching grants schemes designed to promote firm-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of projects - the National Productivity and Technological...

We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of program impacts, and provide a metric to compare various such programs around the world. In...

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity...

Ostdeutsche Unternehmen werden seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung bei staatlichen Subventionsprogrammen besonders berücksichtigt. Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten von Unternehmen der neuen Bundesländer. Es stellt...

The objective of evaluating public policy measures is to assess its implications and thus to obtain a measure for weather the respective program has been successful. In this paper, we consider and classify microeconomic and microeconometric approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the...

We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of program impacts, and provide a metric to compare various such programs around the world. In...

In a former article we started to argue that publication and citation rankings of individual scholars do not effectively measure research quality, which should in fact be the essence of evaluation (Frey and Rost (2010)). For the field of economics we show that an alternative ranking based on...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar los impactos de los instrumentos de promoción de la innovación orientada al sector productivo implementados por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación. Se aplicó una combinación de técnicas no experimentales para...

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of...

Industrialization transformed the agrarian landscape of Europe and US into a land of glass amp; steel with bellowing chimneys dotting cities amp; country side. This massive transformation of economy catalyzed drastic, often calamitous, changes in social structure, attitudes and beliefs. Similar...