The impact of brazilian clusters on local development: a propensity score matching approach

The theme of the article is the impact of Brazilian clusters on local development: a propensity score matching approach. The objective is to determine if there are improvements on the local development of municipalities with clusters compared to those without clusters. At the same time, the objectiv...

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Autores: Alderete, María Verónica, Bacic, Miguel Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Católica Dom Bosco (UCDB)
Repositorio:Interações (Campo Grande. Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.multitemasucdb.emnuvens.com.br:article/2417
Acceso en línea:https://interacoes.ucdb.br/interacoes/article/view/2417
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:cluster
local development
propensity score matching.
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Sumario:The theme of the article is the impact of Brazilian clusters on local development: a propensity score matching approach. The objective is to determine if there are improvements on the local development of municipalities with clusters compared to those without clusters. At the same time, the objective is to provide the explanatory factors of clustering in a territory. The methodology is Propensity Score Matching technique (ROSEMBAUM; ROBIN, 1983). The object of study are the non-metropolitan municipalities of the São Paulo State, in Brazil. Data is collected from the SEADE Foundation and the United Nations Program for the years 2009 and 2010. The results obtained show statically significant differences in the average local development (measured by well-known indexes) between municipalities with and without clusters. Municipalities with clusters achieve a higher local development than municipalities without clusters. The present paper contributes to the scant quantitative research on the impact of clusters on local development.