for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …

labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to … explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

-based evaluation of projects is unlikely to lead to scientific progress in the understanding of economic development. I welcome recent … trends in development experimentation away from the evaluation of projects and towards the evaluation of theoretical …

This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our … examine some commonly employed evaluation strategies, and assess them with a common set of criteria for "internal validity …", the foremost goal of an ex post evaluation. In some cases, we also provide some concrete illustrations of how internally …