The context of community-based interventions presents formidable problems for any evaluation analysis. Group …-randomized studies do possess ideal properties in theory, but in practice, grouprandomization might not be a feasible alternative at all …

This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments … evaluation literature. A workhorse simulation model of education returns is used throughout the paper to discuss and illustrate …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … evaluation of current policies. Our model clarifies a series of puzzles from the literature on the value of life and on …

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a …

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 …

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 …