Abstract
Buck T. and Atkins M. (1983) Regional policies in retrospect: an application of analysis of variance, Reg. Studies 17, 181–189. British regional policies have generally used subsidies on manufacturing investment to encourage employment growth in problem areas. Successive studies have tried to identify the proportion of employment growth in the Development Areas that can be attributed to these policies as part of a wider exercise to estimate the full costs and benefits of such employment creation and diversion. This paper uses the ANOVA technique to estimate the employment benefits of British regional policy, 1963–75. It concludes that over the period as a whole earlier studies have probably overstated their impact, but that paradoxically their success in slowing the rate of decline in the Development Areas during a period of rapid national decline (1971–75) seems to have been underestimated previously.
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