Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However …, delegating evaluation power to local leadership could induce influence activities: employees might devote too much effort to …. We find that civil servants do engage in evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, partly in the form …

A standard methodology in program evaluation is to use time series variation to compare pre- and post-program outcomes … instability provide a flexible framework for testing a range of hypotheses commonly posed in program evaluation. These tests help … test of parameter instability is applied to the evaluation of the Boston Gun Project, a comprehensive effort to reduce …

I argue for thinking of program evaluation as a decision problem. In the context of California's GAIN experiment (a … is not statistically significant. I also argue for incorporating the post-evaluation assignment mechanism for the program … under consideration into the evaluation process. I show that if policies, such as allowing a career counselor to choose …