What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth

什么对地方经济增长有效

• 批准号: ES/T007702/1
• 负责人: Henry Overman
• 金额: $ 491.72万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT007702%2F1
• 关键词: What; Works; Centre; Local; Economic

The What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth was set up in October 2013 as part of the What Works network to analyse which policies are most effective in supporting and increasing local economic growth.The overall aim of the Centre is to significantly improve the use of evidence in the design and delivery of policies for local economic growth and employment - leading to more effective policies and policymaking.This proposal covers a new phase of activity to run over a further three years. It builds on the progress made in the last six years in providing evidence synthesis, communicating the evidence base to policymakers and improving and supporting the evaluation of specific policies by both local and central government. We have learned a great deal over the past six years about how to make our work useful without losing academic rigour, and what forms of support and advice are preferred by our users. We have also built an extensive community of practice for evidence-based policy making. This experience has been invaluable in setting out our plans for the future.The Centre is committed to helping users to access and understand the evidence about what works. During the first six years, the Centre has developed a wide range of resources to help deliver on this objective. The Centre's evidence reviews consider a specific type of evidence - impact evaluation - that seeks to understand the causal effect of policy interventions and to establish their cost-effectiveness. The Centre will undertake work to ensure that our evidence reviews continue to offer the most useful advice based on the most robust and appropriate evidence. There will be a focus on reviewing UK-specific evaluations in those policy areas where enough UK-specific studies are available.In addition to the evidence reviews, we have also developed many toolkits which aim to inform specific aspects of policy design. They are intended to help policymakers understand how much is known about effectiveness, value for money, and key considerations associated with each approach. The Centre will further develop our toolkits to ensure that they draw on the latest evaluations available.We are planning a range of activities aimed at getting more academic researchers involved with the work of the Centre, both topic specialists and those with expertise in specific evaluation methods and datasets.We provide a range of evaluation resources including our 'How to Evaluate' series and evaluation case studies to help improve the capacity of policymakers to produce robust evaluation and embed the use of evidence in the policy design process. We will continue to up-date and develop the range of resources available to meet user needs.We also run workshops about the evidence base and how to robustly pilot and test programmes and investments. We will continue the current programme, running bespoke sessions every month and open access sessions quarterly.We will undertake additional activities to expand our capacity building work with users by: - Funding a number of high-quality partnership evaluations; - Better resourcing our current evaluation support offer through the establishment of a panel of evaluation experts, recruited through an open call;- Engaging a new set of local government partners in special projects.These activities will be funded through a new £2m Stimulus Fund. The overall aim of the Stimulus Fund will be to facilitate more direct engagement and collaboration in identifying, developing and implementing policy evaluations and other special projects in support of the Centre's strategic objectives.The proposal identifies a number of broad thematic areas where national and local decision-makers will be in most need of new advice. We propose to address each of the thematic areas through a variety of activities.

2013年10月成立了地方经济增长有效措施中心，作为有效措施网络的一部分，分析哪些政策在支持和促进地方经济增长方面最有效。该中心的总体目标是在设计和实施地方经济增长和就业政策时大大改进证据的使用-这一建议涵盖了今后三年的新活动阶段。它借鉴了过去六年在提供证据综合、向决策者传达证据基础以及改进和支持地方和中央政府对具体政策的评价方面取得的进展。在过去的六年里，我们学到了很多关于如何使我们的工作有用而不失去学术严谨性，以及我们的用户更喜欢什么形式的支持和建议。我们还建立了一个广泛的实践社区，以促进循证决策。这些经验对我们制定未来的计划非常宝贵。中心致力于帮助用户访问和了解有关有效方法的证据。在头六年中，中心开发了广泛的资源，以帮助实现这一目标。国贸中心的证据审查考虑一种特定类型的证据-影响评价-力求了解政策干预的因果影响，并确定其成本效益。该中心将开展工作，确保我们的证据审查继续根据最有力和最适当的证据提供最有用的建议。将重点审查那些有足够的英国具体研究的政策领域的英国具体评价。除了证据审查外，我们还开发了许多工具包，旨在为政策设计的具体方面提供信息。它们旨在帮助政策制定者了解对每种方法的有效性、资金价值和关键考虑因素的了解程度。该中心将进一步开发我们的工具包，以确保它们利用现有的最新评价，我们正在规划一系列活动，旨在让更多的学术研究人员参与该中心的工作，我们提供一系列评估资源，包括我们的“如何评估”系列和评估案例研究，以帮助提高评估能力。政策制定者进行强有力的评价，并在政策设计过程中使用证据。我们将继续更新和发展现有的各种资源，以满足用户的需求。我们还举办了关于证据基础以及如何大力试点和测试项目和投资的研讨会。我们将继续执行目前的方案，每月举行定制会议，每季度举行开放获取会议，并将开展更多活动，扩大我们与用户的能力建设工作，具体做法是：-为一些高质量的伙伴关系评价提供资金; -通过设立一个评价专家小组，通过公开招聘，更好地为我们目前提供的评价支助提供资源;- 让一批新的地方政府合作伙伴参与特别项目。这些活动将通过新的200万英镑刺激基金提供资金。刺激基金的总体目标是促进更直接的参与和合作，该建议确定了一些广泛的专题领域，地方决策者将最需要新的建议。我们建议通过各种活动处理每一个专题领域。

项目成果

Evidence briefing: Local growth, high streets and town centres

证据简报：当地发展、大街和城镇中心

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Mason D.

The What Works Centres - Lessons and Insights from an Evidence Movement

有效的中心——证据运动的教训和见解

• DOI: 10.2307/jj.2430357.16
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Mason D

Recovering from the first Covid-19 lockdown: economic impacts of the UK's Eat Out to Help Out scheme

从第一次 Covid-19 封锁中恢复：英国“Eat Out to Help Out”计划的经济影响

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Gonzalez Pampillon, N.

Devolving Skills: The Case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers*

技能转移：雇主学徒补助金案例*

• DOI: 10.1111/1475-5890.12238
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Fiscal Studies
• 影响因子: 7.3
• 作者: Cavaglia C

Place-Based Policies and Spatial Disparities across European Cities

欧洲城市的地方政策和空间差异

• DOI: 10.1257/jep.34.3.128
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Economic Perspectives
• 影响因子: 8.4
• 作者: Ehrlich M