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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching
Heinrich, Carolyn; Maffioli, Alessandro; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of a program and the data required, presenting examples of PSM applications. It explains how the...
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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching
Maffioli, Alessandro; Heinrich, Carolyn; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The use of microeconometric techniques to estimate the effects of development policies has become a common approach not only for scholars, but also for policy-makers engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating projects in different fields. Among these techniques, Propensity-Score Matching...
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Building in an evaluation component for active labor market programs: A practitioner's guide
Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282323
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David E.; Ibarraran, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393110
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Building in an Evalualtion Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs), and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672617
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Building in an Evaluation Component for Active Labor Market Programs: A Practitioner's Guide
Card, David; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Villa, Juan Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized design, in which a group of potential participants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371174
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Program Evaluation and Spillover Effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Maro, Vincenzo Di - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This note defines what spillover effects are, why it is important to measure them, and how to design an evaluation that will enable researchers to measure the impact of the program in the presence of spillover effects on subjects both eligible and ineligible for the program. Several practical...
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Improving the Quality of Data and Impact-Evaluation Studies in Developing Countries
Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alex - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
While the science of program evaluation has come a tremendous distance in the past couple of decades, measurement error remains a serious concern and its implications are often poorly understood by both data collectors and data analysts. The primary aim here is to offer a type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653459
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Social Exclusion in Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Marshall, Jeffery H.; Calderón, Valentina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing … to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the … contextual factors intervening in the delivery of a quality education at all levels to socially excluded groups, particularly …
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2011 Evaluability Review of Bank Projects Title: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2012
During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...
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