Transforming Knowledge into Change

Impact Evaluation in Practice

This book provides an overview of impact evaluation from the perspective of the Wold Bank.

The first section focuses on why impact evaluation is important and how it fits within the context of evidence-based policy making. Impact evaluation is contrasted with other common evaluation practices, such as monitoring and process evaluations. Different modalities of impact evaluation, are introduced, such as prospective and retrospective evaluation, and efficacy versus efficiency trials. This section also discusses how to formulate evaluation questions and hypotheses hat are useful for policy. These questions and hypotheses form the basis f evaluation because they determine what it is that the evaluation will be looking for.

Part 2 of this book explains what impact evaluations do, what questions they answer, what methods are available for conducting them,
and the advantages and disadvantages of each. The menu of impact evaluation options discussed includes randomized selection methods, regression discontinuity esign, difference-in-differences, and matching.

 

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Author Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch
Publisher The World Bank
Publication Date January 1, 2011
Publication City Washington DC
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