Handbook on Impact Evaluation : Quantitative Methods and Practices
This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation. The formal literature on impact evaluation methods and practices is large, with a few useful overviews. Yet there is a need to put the theory into practice in a hands-on fashio...
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ACCOUNTABILITY AUDITS BENEFICIARIES CAPACITY BUILDING CLINICS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL COUNTERFACTUALS DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC FACTORS EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION STUDIES EVALUATORS EX ANTE ANALYSIS EX POST EVALUATION EX POST IMPACT EVALUATION EXERCISES EXPERIMENTAL DATA EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FAMILIES FINAL INDICATORS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FLEXIBILITY GENERAL PRACTICE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOUSEHOLD INCOME HYGIENE IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION IMPACT EVALUATION TOOLS IMPACT INDICATORS INCOME INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERMEDIATE INDICATORS INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LABOR MARKETS LEARNING M&E SYSTEMS MATCHING METHODS METHODOLOGIES MODELING MORTALITY NONEXPERIMENTAL METHODS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPARTICIPANT GROUPS NUTRITION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POLICY CHANGES POLLUTION POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM EFFECTS PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MONITORING PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION QUANTITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRES REDUCING POVERTY REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS RELIABILITY RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCHERS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SIMULATION SIMULATIONS SOCIAL NETWORKS SURVEY DATA SURVEY INSTRUMENTS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TRAINING PROGRAMS TRANSPARENCY TREATMENT EFFECTS WAGES WELL-BEING Microdata Set |
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ACCOUNTABILITY AUDITS BENEFICIARIES CAPACITY BUILDING CLINICS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL COUNTERFACTUALS DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC FACTORS EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION STUDIES EVALUATORS EX ANTE ANALYSIS EX POST EVALUATION EX POST IMPACT EVALUATION EXERCISES EXPERIMENTAL DATA EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FAMILIES FINAL INDICATORS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FLEXIBILITY GENERAL PRACTICE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOUSEHOLD INCOME HYGIENE IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION IMPACT EVALUATION TOOLS IMPACT INDICATORS INCOME INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERMEDIATE INDICATORS INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LABOR MARKETS LEARNING M&E SYSTEMS MATCHING METHODS METHODOLOGIES MODELING MORTALITY NONEXPERIMENTAL METHODS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPARTICIPANT GROUPS NUTRITION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POLICY CHANGES POLLUTION POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM EFFECTS PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MONITORING PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION QUANTITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRES REDUCING POVERTY REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS RELIABILITY RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCHERS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SIMULATION SIMULATIONS SOCIAL NETWORKS SURVEY DATA SURVEY INSTRUMENTS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TRAINING PROGRAMS TRANSPARENCY TREATMENT EFFECTS WAGES WELL-BEING Microdata Set Khandker, Shahidur R. Koolwal, Gayatri B. Samad, Hussain A. Handbook on Impact Evaluation : Quantitative Methods and Practices |
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This book reviews quantitative methods
and models of impact evaluation. The formal literature on
impact evaluation methods and practices is large, with a few
useful overviews. Yet there is a need to put the theory into
practice in a hands-on fashion for practitioners. This book
also details challenges and goals in other realms of
evaluation, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E),
operational evaluation, and mixed-methods approaches
combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. This book
is organized as follows. Chapter two reviews the basic
issues pertaining to an evaluation of an intervention to
reach certain targets and goals. It distinguishes impact
evaluation from related concepts such as M&E,
operational evaluation, qualitative versus quantitative
evaluation, and ex-ante versus ex post impact evaluation.
Chapter three focuses on the experimental design of an
impact evaluation, discussing its strengths and
shortcomings. Various non-experimental methods exist as
well, each of which are discussed in turn through chapters
four to seven. Chapter four examines matching methods,
including the propensity score matching technique. Chapter
five deal with double-difference methods in the context of
panel data, which relax some of the assumptions on the
potential sources of selection bias. Chapter six reviews the
instrumental variable method, which further relaxes
assumptions on self-selection. Chapter seven examines
regression discontinuity and pipeline methods, which exploit
the design of the program itself as potential sources of
identification of program impacts. Specifically, chapter
eight presents a discussion of how distributional impacts of
programs can be measured, including new techniques related
to quantile regression. Chapter nine discusses structural
approaches to program evaluation, including economic models
that can lay the groundwork for estimating direct and
indirect effects of a program. Finally, chapter ten
discusses the strengths and weaknesses of experimental and
non-experimental methods and also highlights the usefulness
of impact evaluation tools in policy making. |
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation :
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Handbook on Impact Evaluation :
Quantitative Methods and Practices |
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Quantitative Methods and Practices |
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okr-10986-26932021-04-23T14:02:03Z Handbook on Impact Evaluation : Quantitative Methods and Practices Khandker, Shahidur R. Koolwal, Gayatri B. Samad, Hussain A. ACCOUNTABILITY AUDITS BENEFICIARIES CAPACITY BUILDING CLINICS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPARISON GROUPS CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL COUNTERFACTUALS DATA ANALYSIS DATA COLLECTION DECISION MAKING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC FACTORS EVALUATION DESIGN EVALUATION METHODS EVALUATION STUDIES EVALUATORS EX ANTE ANALYSIS EX POST EVALUATION EX POST IMPACT EVALUATION EXERCISES EXPERIMENTAL DATA EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FAMILIES FINAL INDICATORS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FLEXIBILITY GENERAL PRACTICE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOUSEHOLD INCOME HYGIENE IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION IMPACT EVALUATION TOOLS IMPACT INDICATORS INCOME INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES INTERMEDIATE INDICATORS INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES INTERVENTION INTERVIEWS LABOR MARKETS LEARNING M&E SYSTEMS MATCHING METHODS METHODOLOGIES MODELING MORTALITY NONEXPERIMENTAL METHODS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS NONPARTICIPANT GROUPS NUTRITION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POLICY CHANGES POLLUTION POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMS PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGRAM EFFECTS PROGRAM EVALUATION PROGRAM IMPACTS PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS PROGRAM OUTCOMES PROGRAMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROJECT MONITORING PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS QUALITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE DATA QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION QUANTITATIVE METHODS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRES REDUCING POVERTY REFLEXIVE COMPARISONS RELIABILITY RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCHERS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELECTION BIAS SERVICE DELIVERY SIMULATION SIMULATIONS SOCIAL NETWORKS SURVEY DATA SURVEY INSTRUMENTS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TRAINING PROGRAMS TRANSPARENCY TREATMENT EFFECTS WAGES WELL-BEING Microdata Set This book reviews quantitative methods and models of impact evaluation. The formal literature on impact evaluation methods and practices is large, with a few useful overviews. Yet there is a need to put the theory into practice in a hands-on fashion for practitioners. This book also details challenges and goals in other realms of evaluation, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E), operational evaluation, and mixed-methods approaches combining quantitative and qualitative analyses. This book is organized as follows. Chapter two reviews the basic issues pertaining to an evaluation of an intervention to reach certain targets and goals. It distinguishes impact evaluation from related concepts such as M&E, operational evaluation, qualitative versus quantitative evaluation, and ex-ante versus ex post impact evaluation. Chapter three focuses on the experimental design of an impact evaluation, discussing its strengths and shortcomings. Various non-experimental methods exist as well, each of which are discussed in turn through chapters four to seven. Chapter four examines matching methods, including the propensity score matching technique. Chapter five deal with double-difference methods in the context of panel data, which relax some of the assumptions on the potential sources of selection bias. Chapter six reviews the instrumental variable method, which further relaxes assumptions on self-selection. Chapter seven examines regression discontinuity and pipeline methods, which exploit the design of the program itself as potential sources of identification of program impacts. Specifically, chapter eight presents a discussion of how distributional impacts of programs can be measured, including new techniques related to quantile regression. Chapter nine discusses structural approaches to program evaluation, including economic models that can lay the groundwork for estimating direct and indirect effects of a program. Finally, chapter ten discusses the strengths and weaknesses of experimental and non-experimental methods and also highlights the usefulness of impact evaluation tools in policy making. 2012-03-19T10:04:58Z 2012-03-19T10:04:58Z 2010 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333037_20091210014322 978-0-8213-8028-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2693 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication |