family has a sufficient amount of food, and deteriorated child nutrition. There is also a differential effect between … vulnerable groups that are most likely to benefit from programs designed to provide sufficient nutrition to the population. …

Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining …

programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution … 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 …

; food security ; nutrition ; poverty ; quantile regression ; influence functions …

fertility and GDP nor to gender inequality as measured by the Gender Gap Index. -- cognitive maths skills ; gender ; Africa …

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 …

to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes …. -- propensity score matching ; implementation ; evaluation ; sensitivity …

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 …