Impact Evaluation in Practice: Second Edition

By Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, C. Vermeersch. 2010

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The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used widely across the development and academic communities. The book incorporates real-world examples to present practical guidelines for designing and implementing impact evaluations. Readers will gain an understanding of impact evaluations and the best ways to use them to design evidence-based policies and programs. The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that draw on recent development challenges. It also includes new material on research ethics and partnerships to conduct impact evaluation. The handbook is divided into four sections: Part One discusses what to evaluate and why; Part Two presents the main impact evaluation methods; Part Three addresses how to manage impact evaluations; Part Four reviews impact evaluation sampling and data collection. Case studies illustrate different applications of impact evaluations. The book links to complementary instructional material available online, including an applied case as well as questions and answers. The updated second edition will be a valuable resource for the international development community, universities, and policy makers looking to build better evidence around what works in development.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Safety Research

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Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the Mechanisms of Investor Impact (2020, background): “The World Bank characterizes impact as “ . . . causal effects of a program on an outcome of interest” (Gertler et al., 2011, p. 8).”
Citizens and Service Delivery: Assessing the Use of Social Accountability Approaches in Human Development Sectors (2011, background): “Gertler et al. 2011 Duflo, Glennerster, and Kremer 2006 Simultaneity of interventions Cross-cut interventions so that one group gets intervention A, another gets intervention B, and another gets the combination of A and B. Generate hypotheses about which types of outcomes should be affected by a…”
The Effect of a Data Breach Announcement on Customer Behavior: Evidence from a Multichannel Retailer (2018, background): “In summary, the combination of PSM and DD helps control for selection resulting from both observed and (time-invariant) unobserved factors that could confound the effect of DBA (Gertler et al. 2011).”
Evaluating the Impact of Professional Development (2018, background): “In relation to the ‘when’ question noted earlier, a distinction can be made (Gertler et al., 2011) between prospective impact evaluation, which is built into an intervention and collects ongoing evidence (including at baseline), and retrospective evaluation, which takes place only on completion of…”
From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme (2012, background): “Some papers indicate that this loss of observations prevents the average treatment effect from being accurately estimated (Diaz and Handa 2006, Heinrich et al. 2010, Khandker et al. 2010, Gertler et al. 2011).”