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Evaluation
The rationale
- Agents in charge of public policies (e.g., labor, environment, transport), firm managers and society as a whole demand results and accountability from public programs. Impact evaluation provides solid, empirical evidence about whether an economic program has achieved the expected results.
How to address the challenges
- Applying quantitative methods to measure the effects of the program (or of economic or managerial decisions).
- Determining what would have happened to the beneficiaries if the program had not existed.
- Identifying the variables that must be measured to determine whether the policy (or economic or managerial decisions) really generated the expected benefits, results or impacts.
The Challenges
- Policy designers, firm managers, technical project administrators and practitioners need accurate information about the real effects of concrete policy programs.
- It is necessary to know wether a program reached the expected results in favor of citizens.
- Stakeholders need to identify inefficient decisions, determine successful interventions to expand, know how to adjust the benefits of programs and policies, and make choices between alternative programs.
Our products
- Evaluation and diagnosis of the impact of labor policies such as employment subsidies and reduced social security contributions aimed at creating contracts, active labor market policies, labor mobility, changing of the parameters (level or entitlement duration) of the unemployment compensation system or pensions, among others.
- Evaluation and diagnosis of the effects of transport policies (i.e., price policies and their effects on public financing or on the behavior of transport users, including passengers or freight transport).
- Evaluation and diagnosis of environmental impact of energy poverty , energy transport , etc.
- Evaluation and diagnosis of the impact of programs toreduce poverty.
- Diagnosis of other types of programs suitable for impact evaluation, in particular for supporting the rest of research areas in INSERAS.
JOSE M. ARRANZDirector of the Evaluation Area
Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Alcalá (Madrid). His research activities focus on the fields of applied econometrics, labor market and impact policy evaluation. His published papers have appeared in international journals such as Labour Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Economic Inequality, Social Indicators Research, and so on. He has also taken part in or led projects for Spanish national institutions such as the Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Science and Technology, and Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. He is a research fellow in international university and research centers such as University College London (UK), VATT (Helsinki, Finland) and Eurofound (Dublin, Ireland).