The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet … evaluation, specifically information sharing among expert evaluators, plays in generating conservative decisions. We executed two … from seven universities to evaluate 97 projects resulting in 761 proposal-evaluation pairs and over $300,000 in awards. We …

Ongoing empirical research on the drivers of project-aid effectiveness relies on World Bank evaluation ratings across … World Bank evaluation ratings are measuring precisely. Second, only project management variables, which are sector …. Moreover, we are able to analyze the impact of project design in addition to project management. We find that evaluation …

In 2006 the Center for Global Development's report 'When Will We Ever Learn? Improving lives through impact evaluation …

evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a … such that they explain the cause of these effects and whom they affect. Such an evaluation design is necessary to avoid …

-Markov event-history model, discussits application to program evaluation, and analyze its empirical content.The results of this …

The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to … impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across … evaluation. The handbook is divided into four sections: Part One discusses what to evaluate and why; Part Two presents the main …