evaluation is best conducted either by comparing mean outcomes from a randomized intervention or by using econometric techniques …

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. …

to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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 …

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

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition …