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Policy Evaluation Counterfactual Impact Evaluation

Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE) for policy assessment estimates the causal effect of a public policy or programme by comparing observed outcomes of participants against a rigorously constructed counterfactual — what would have happened had the policy not existed. Rooted in the Rubin potential-outcomes framework, CIE is the standard methodology endorsed by the European Commission for evaluating research, innovation, and structural funding programmes.

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Counterfactual Impact Evaluation for Policy Assessment

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Imbens, G. W., & Rubin, D. B. (2015). Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 978-0521885881
Cerulli, G. (2014). Econometric Evaluation of Socioeconomic Programs: Theory and Applications. Springer. · URL

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