Skip to contentScholarGate
LibraryBookshelfDeskReview StudioAssistant
Sign in
Spatial Counterfactual Impact Evaluation/Evidence
Method evidence record

Spatial Counterfactual Impact Evaluation

Spatial Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (SCIE) is a family of quasi-experimental methods that estimate the causal effect of geographically targeted policies — such as EU Cohesion Funds, enterprise zones, or place-based subsidies — by constructing a spatial counterfactual: what outcomes the treated region would have experienced without the intervention, inferred from comparable untreated regions or from discontinuities at policy boundaries.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Spatial Counterfactual Impact Evaluation
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / causal-inference
  • Cerqua, A., & Pellegrini, G. (2014). Do subsidies to private capital boost firms' growth? A multiple regression discontinuity design approach. Journal of Public Economics, 109, 114-126. · DOI 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.11.005
  • Pellegrini, G., Terribile, F., Tarola, O., Muccigrosso, T., & Busillo, F. (2013). Measuring the effects of European Regional Policy on economic growth: A regression discontinuity approach. Papers in Regional Science, 92(1), 217-233. · DOI 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00459.x
Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Same method familyDifference-in-Differencesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyGeographically Weighted Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoInstrumental Variables in Health Researchmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoPropensity Score Matchingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSynthetic Control Methodmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Actions

Open method page
ScholarGate

A content-first reference library for research methods — what each one is, how it works, and where it comes from.

Open data (CC-BY)

Explore

  • Library
  • Search the library…
  • Browse by field
  • Fields
  • Journey
  • Compare
  • Which method?

Reference

  • Subjects
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Your tools

  • Bookshelf
  • Desk
  • Chat

Company

  • About
  • Pricing
  • Contact
  • Suggest a method

Entries are compiled from published sources for reference. Verifying the accuracy and suitability of any information for your own use remains your responsibility.

© 2026 ScholarGate · A research-method reference library
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms
  • Delete account