Regional impacts of the EU Rural Development Programme: Poland’s food processing sector

Figures & data

Table 1. Estimated ‘food processing support’ of the Rural Development Programme (FP-RDP) effects on the food processing sector for the alternative evaluation methodologies.

	PSM–DID (65 control variables)	Modified MDM (65 control variables)	CEM–PSM–DID (15 control variables)	CEM (weighted regression with 15 control variables)
Number of food processing firms
I. ATT–DID (per supported region)	1.94	1.90	0.26	0.32
II. ATT–DID (per country, I × 270 regions)	522.72	513.00	70.65	86.40
III. Effect of other factors (IV – II)	3098	3108	3550	3535
IV. Total effect (Poland) (2009–16)	3621	3621	3621	3621
Number of exiting food processing firms
I. ATT–DID (per supported region)	6.27	4.90	3.97	8.45
II. ATT–DID (per country, I × 270 regions)	1692	1323	1071	2281
III. Effect of other factors (IV – II)	11,319	11,688	11,940	10,730
IV. Total effect (Poland) (2009–16)	13,011	13,011	13,011	13,011
Employment in the food processing sector
I. ATT–DID (per supported region)	−102.04	−214.10	−168.60	−57.80
II. ATT–DID (per country, I  × 270 regions)	−27,552	−57,807	−45,522	−15,606
III. Effect of other factors (IV – II)	34,162	64,417	52,132	22,216
IV. Total effect (Poland) (2013–06)	6610	6610	6610	6610

Note: ATT, average treatment on the treated; CEM, coarsened exact matching; DID, difference-in-differences; MDM, Mahalanobis distance matching; PSM, propensity-score matching.