@techreport{Frondel2001Evaluating,
abstract = {Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making
the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of
the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental
economics literature has yet to confront the problem of proper attribution of effects to
underlying causes on a convincing methodological basis. This paper argues that recent
results in the econometrics and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to
advance considerably in this context. In particular, the construction of a credible
counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even when
controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where
traditional empirical strategies fail to uncover the effects of environmental interventions.},
author = {Manuel Frondel and Christoph M. Schmidt},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C90; C40; H43; 330; Environmental policy; energy-conservation programs; experiments; observational studies; counterfactual; Umweltpolitik; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse; Empirische Methode; Energiesparen; Subvention; Experiment; Theorie; Kontrafaktische Situation},
language = {eng},
number = {397},
title = {Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21257},
year = {2001}
}
