Impact evaluation in practice

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION TO IMPACT EVALUATION -- Chapter 1. Why Evaluate? -- Evidence-Based Policy Making -- What Is Impact Evaluation? -- Prospective versus Retrospective Impact Evaluation -- Efficacy Studies and Effectiveness Studies -- Complementary Approaches -- Ethical Considerations Regarding Impact Evaluation -- Impact Evaluation for Policy Decisions -- Deciding Whether to Carry Out an Impact Evaluation -- Chapter 2. Preparing for an Evaluation -- Initial Steps -- Constructing a Theory of Change -- Developing a Results Chain -- Specifying Evaluation Questions -- Selecting Outcome and Performance Indicators -- Checklist: Getting Data for Your Indicators -- PART TWO. HOW TO EVALUATE -- Chapter 3. Causal Inference and Counterfactuals -- Causal Inference -- The Counterfactual -- Two Counterfeit Estimates of the Counterfactual -- Chapter 4. Randomized Assignment -- Evaluating Programs Based on the Rules of Assignment -- Randomized Assignment of Treatment -- Checklist: Randomized Assignment -- Chapter 5. Instrumental Variables -- Evaluating Programs When Not Everyone Complies with Their Assignment -- Types of Impact Estimates -- Imperfect Compliance -- Randomized Promotion as an Instrumental Variable -- Checklist: Randomized Promotion as an Instrumental Variable -- Chapter 6. Regression Discontinuity Design -- Evaluating Programs That Use an Eligibility Index -- Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design -- Checking the Validity of the Regression Discontinuity Design -- Limitations and Interpretation of the Regression Discontinuity Design Method -- Checklist: Regression Discontinuity Design -- Chapter 7. Difference-in-Differences -- Evaluating a Program When the Rule of Assignment Is Less Clear.

Revised edition of Impact evaluation in practice, 2011. - Description based on print version record.