Evaluating the impact of public policies on regional welfare

Bibliographic Data

ID10409095
AuthorsRobert Haveman (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Robert H Haveman
Year1976
Volume10
Issue4
Pages449-463
Publication date1976-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegional Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09595237600185471
OpenAlexW2041204382
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Haveman R. H. (1976) Evaluating the impact of public policies on regional welfare, Reg. Studies 10, 449–463. A persistent regional planning issue—the evaluation of public policies when both national economic efficiency and regional equity are objectives—is addressed in this paper. After defining ‘regional development’ both in concept and for applied work, the wide range of policy measures available to affect regional welfare is identified. If increasing the welfare of specific regions is a social objective, policy evaluation in a benefit-cost context requires both an explicit set of regional weights and estimates of the impact of the policy on both the regions of concern and all other regions. The requirements of such an ideal regional impact analysis are presented and compared with the approach employed in a number of existing analyses of regional impact. Several recommendations are offered to close the gap between existing policy evaluations when regional development objectives are specified and the ideal form of such analyses

Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Equity (law · Geography · Political science · Public economics · Public policy · Regional development · Regional Policy · Regional science · Shift-share analysis · Social Welfare · Welfare · Regional Development and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Regional resilience and development

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