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

Alderete, María Verónica; Bacic, Miguel Juan

doi:10.20435/inter.v21i1.2417

María Verónica Alderete

Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur (IIESS), Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

About the authors: María Verónica Alderete: PhD in Economics (Universidad Nacional del Sur [UNS], Bahía Blanca, Argentine, 2010). Adjunct researcher of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), at IIESS (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur) - CONICET-UNS. Besides, she is an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics (UNS). Her research interests are Information Society, Economics of Innovation, and Local Development. Her more recent publications are “Broadband adoption in Latin American countries: does geographic proximity matter?” in the Revista Problemas del Desarrollo; “Mobile broadband: a key enabling technology for entrepreneurship?” in Journal of Small Business Management; and “An approach to the broadband effect on Latin American growth: a structural model”, in Cuadernos de Economía, among others. E-mail: mvalderete@iiess-conicet.gob.ar, Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-7526

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Miguel Juan Bacic

Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

Miguel Juan Bacic: Holds a Certified Public Accountant degree - Universidad Nacional Del Sur, (1976), Master’s Degree in Economical Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas, 1990) and a Doctor’s Degree in Business Administration - Universidad Nacional Del Sur (1998). Full Professor in Economics (field of Business Economics) of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2002). Currently an MS6 professor (head professor) at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Has experience in Business Economics and Administration, acting mainly with the following subjects: Cost Management, Corporate Strategy, Quality Management, Economy of Small Businesses, Local Development Policies, Entrepreneurship and Solidarity Economy E-mail: bacic@unicamp.br, Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-9422

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-9422

About the authors:

María Verónica Alderete: PhD in Economics (Universidad Nacional del Sur [UNS], Bahía Blanca, Argentine, 2010). Adjunct researcher of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), at IIESS (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur) - CONICET-UNS. Besides, she is an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics (UNS). Her research interests are Information Society, Economics of Innovation, and Local Development. Her more recent publications are “Broadband adoption in Latin American countries: does geographic proximity matter?” in the Revista Problemas del Desarrollo; “Mobile broadband: a key enabling technology for entrepreneurship?” in Journal of Small Business Management; and “An approach to the broadband effect on Latin American growth: a structural model”, in Cuadernos de Economía, among others. E-mail: mvalderete@iiess-conicet.gob.ar, Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-7526

Miguel Juan Bacic: Holds a Certified Public Accountant degree - Universidad Nacional Del Sur, (1976), Master’s Degree in Economical Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (State University of Campinas, 1990) and a Doctor’s Degree in Business Administration - Universidad Nacional Del Sur (1998). Full Professor in Economics (field of Business Economics) of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2002). Currently an MS6 professor (head professor) at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Has experience in Business Economics and Administration, acting mainly with the following subjects: Cost Management, Corporate Strategy, Quality Management, Economy of Small Businesses, Local Development Policies, Entrepreneurship and Solidarity Economy E-mail: bacic@unicamp.br, Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-9422

Dimensions	IPRS	IDHM	IPVS
Wealth/income	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scholarity	Yes	Yes	Yes
Longevity	Yes	Yes	Yes
Health	No	Yes	No
Demography	No	Yes	Yes
Poverty	No	No	Yes

Municipalities	Percent of total municipalities	IDH2010	IPRS	IPVS2	IPVS5
With clusters	19,82	0,7428692	3,2050	42,92	11,96
Without clusters	80,18	0,7391155	3,5150	32,19	17,62
ANOVA		Ns	^* ***** significant al 1%.	^* ***** significant al 1%.	^* ***** significant al 1%.
Total municipalities	100	0,7398593	3,45	34,55	16,29

	Groups of municipalities	N	Mean	Standard Dev	Min	Max
Demographic density	With cluster	107	123.774	158.7698	11.63	944.11
Demographic density	Without cluster	433	46.20603	59.14157	3.73	590.41
Urbanization	With cluster	107	89.77692	8.925384	54.44	100
Urbanization	Without cluster	433	81.04762	14.57788	24.92	100
Area	With cluster	107	517.71	368.6685	48.6	1826.75
Area	Without cluster	433	373.9326	295.7892	3.64	1656.73
ducation	With cluster	107	85.24299	5.763976	69	99
ducation	Without cluster	433	86.49654	7.273469	60	100
Industry participation in aggregate value	With cluster	107	25.21346	13.08161	5.78	72.89
Industry participation in aggregate value	Without cluster	433	21.86376	15.16331	4.6	84.5
Industrial parks	With cluster	107	.4018692	.492583	0	1
Industrial parks	Without cluster	433	.4018476	.4908386	0	1
QL agriculture	With cluster	107	4.979832	5.046638	.192	22.873
QL agriculture	Without cluster	433	6.954097	5.049232	.026	28.744
QL commerce	With cluster	107	.927486	.3996479	.184	1.911
QL commerce	Without cluster	433	.7223002	.4210959	.012	2.752
QL industry	With cluster	107	1.35471	.6783922	.013	2.957
QL industry	Without cluster	422	.9453886	.8386359	.007	4.102
QL service	With cluster	107	.6699626	.1880338	.23	1.306
QL service	Without cluster	433	.8318637	.3483721	.088	1.722
PC in Public Administration	With cluster	107	60.50467	129.9327	0	1055
PC in Public Administration	Without cluster	433	56.08314	124.5535	0	1452
Urban plot law	With cluster	99	.3030303	.461907	0	1
Urban plot law	Without cluster	404	.1782178	.3831705	0	1

Variable	Coefficient	Standard Error	Significance Level
Demographic Density	.0044914	.0010265	***
Urbanization	.0244691	.008278	***
Area	.0008237	.0002338	***
Education	-.0029428	.0113137	ns
Industry participation in aggregate value	-.0131997	.0062165	**
Industrial park	-.0390361	.1504793	ns
QL agriculture	-.031755	.05158	ns
QL commerce	-.2544621	.4006782	ns
QL industry	-.0194444	.3731702	ns
QL service	-1.435.287	.8858238	ns
PC in Public Administration	-.000232	.0006982	ns
Urban Plot Law	.3341615	.1705481	**
Cons	-1.650.161	2.002.165	ns
N=493
LR chi2(10) = 107.82; Prob> chi2 =0.0000; Pseudo R2=0.2180

Municipality	Frequency	Percentage	Cum.
Control (Without cluster)	303	75.37	75.37
Treated (With cluster)	99	24.63	100.00
Total	402	100.00

	IDH			IPVS2			IPVS5
	Nearest Neighbour	Stratification	Kernel	Nearest Neighbour	Stratification	Kernel	Nearest Neighbour	Stratification	Kernel
ATT	0.004	0.006	0.005	4.965	6.706	6.943	-4.794	-4.457	-4.924
T student	0.686	2.019	1.277	1.332	2.6	2.473	-2.532	-2.342	-3.189
N treated	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99	99
N control	67	303	303	62	303	303	48	303	303

E (Y_{i} ∣ D_{i} = 1) - E (Y_{i} ∣ D_{i} = 0) = [E (Y_{1 i} ∣ D_{i} = 1) - E (Y_{0 i} ∣ D_{i} = 1)] + [E (Y_{0 i} ∣ D_{i} = 1) - E (Y_{0 i} ∣ D_{i} = 0)]

[1] About the authors:

María Verónica Alderete: PhD in Economics (Universidad Nacional del Sur [UNS], Bahía Blanca, Argentine, 2010). Adjunct researcher of CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), at IIESS (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur) - CONICET-UNS. Besides, she is an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics (UNS). Her research interests are Information Society, Economics of Innovation, and Local Development. Her more recent publications are “Broadband adoption in Latin American countries: does geographic proximity matter?” in the Revista Problemas del Desarrollo; “Mobile broadband: a key enabling technology for entrepreneurship?” in Journal of Small Business Management; and “An approach to the broadband effect on Latin American growth: a structural model”, in Cuadernos de Economía, among others. E-mail: mvalderete@iiess-conicet.gob.ar, Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9617-7526

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