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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009
There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325967
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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012
presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326352
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Evaluation of development policy : treatment versus program effects
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009 - Revised August 2009
There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378919
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Evaluation of development programs : using regressions to assess the impact of complex interventions
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723008
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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325021
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Vulnerability in a stochastic dynamic model
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2003 - Rev.
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334363
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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003
insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325075
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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - 2007
Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325576
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Risk sharing in labour markets
Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003 - Rev.
insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334356
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Insurance and rural welfare : what can panel data tell us?
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Lei Pan - 2006 - Rev.
Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350366