Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices

Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and Latin America improve health and schooling outcomes for poor women and children? Does a new road actually raise welfare in a remote area in Tanzania, or is it a ""highway to nowhere?"" This book reviews q.

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Foreword; Preface; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Part 1 Methods and Practices; Figure 2.1 Monitoring and Evaluation Framework; Box 2.1 Case Study: PROGRESA (Oportunidades) in Mexico; Box 2.2 Case Study: Assessing the Social Impact of Rural Energy Services in Nepal; Figure 2.A Levels of Information Collection and Aggregation; Figure 2.B Building up of Key Performance Indicators: Project Stage Details; Box 2.3 Case Study: The Indonesian Kecamatan Development Project; Box 2.4 Case Study: Monitoring the Nutritional Objectives of the FONCODES Project in Peru.

Box 2.5 Case Study: Mixed Methods in Quantitative and Qualitative ApproachesBox 2.6 Case Study: An Example of an Ex Ante Evaluation; Figure 2.2 Evaluation Using a With-and-Without Comparison; Figure 2.3 Evaluation Using a Before-and-After Comparison; Figure 3.1 The Ideal Experiment with an Equivalent Control Group; Box 3.1 Case Study: PROGRESA (Oportunidades); Box 3.2 Case Study: Using Lotteries to Measure Intent-to-Treat Impact; Box 3.3 Case Study: Instrumenting in the Case of Partial Compliance; Box 3.4 Case Study: Minimizing Statistical Bias Resulting from Selective Attrition.

Box 3.5 Case Study: Selecting the Level of Ra…