linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …

to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …

Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and … costs of policy interventions is imperative. This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well … elements of evaluation research, the choice of the appropriate outcome measure, the assessment of the direct and indirect cost …