This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the …

assessment approach with two reviewers scoring each evaluation. We found that most evaluations did not meet social science …

such as droughts can lower the opportunity cost of having children, and raise fertility. Using longitudinal household data … from Madagascar, we estimate the causal effect of drought occurrences on fertility, and explore the nature of potential …. Analyzing the mechanism, we find that droughts have no effect on common underlying factors of high fertility such as marriage …

research quality, which should be the essence of evaluation. For that reason, an alternative ranking is developed as a quality …

approaches to measuring this success. To do so, the evaluation problem is outlined and three estimation priciples are presented …