Data-Driven Learning in the EU: From Administrative Sources to Public Value (Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations) - Tapa dura

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Fabio Berton is a Policy Analyst for Impact Evaluation at the Competence Centre for Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Turin, Italy. His research interests are labor economics and policy evaluation.

Paolo Paruolo is Head of the Competence Centre for Microeconomic Evaluation of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy. His research focuses on time-series econometrics. He served as a Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bologna and University of Insubria, Italy.

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This Open Access book highlights the importance of administrative microdata sources. Administrative data presents several advantages, including wide coverage, low measurement error and collection costs, and interoperability with surveys.

Improved access would benefit many stakeholders: the research community would produce higher-quality and more numerous publications, policymakers and citizens would learn whether policies are effective, firms would benefit from greater market transparency, and trust in public institutions would increase. However, many barriers still exist. This book aims to address these issues.

Focusing on the European Union, the book is organized into two parts. The first part analyzes the access regimes in each EU country. It provides data users with information on how to access administrative data and offers data holders best practices for combining access with data security. The second part documents the benefits of administrative data in key policy areas - society, the economy, and the environment - and identifies specific areas of intervention.

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Co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics