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 …

Lunch Program ; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ; time use ; program evaluation …

Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …

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 …

applied statistic and econometric evaluation literature. Another term for it is conditional independence assumption. This …