Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs

By M. Ravallion. 2005

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A Contribution to Current Debates in Impact Evaluation (2010, neutral): “Y 0 (e.g. Ravallion, 2008).”
Evaluation in the Practice of Development (2008, background): “An example of one effort in this direction can be found in the Galasso and Ravallion (2005) model of a decentralized anti-poverty program; their model focuses on the public-choice problem facing the central government and the local collective action problem facing communities, with individual…”
Extending health insurance to the rural population: an impact evaluation of China's new cooperative medical scheme. (2007, methodology): “We estimate the impacts of NCMS on individual, household and health facility outcomes by combining differences-in-differences or double-differences (DD) with matching methods, an approach that is becoming increasingly common in the impact evaluation literature (cf. e.g. Chen, Mu and Ravallion 2006; ”
Recent Advances in Impact Analysis Methods for Ex-post Impact Assessments of Agricultural Technology: Options for the CGIAR (2010, background): “Ravallion (2005) makes an important point on this subject: if trimming the dataset results in the dropping of some adopters (i.”
The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa (2009, background): “The assumption of non-distinct regimes is made frequently (Ravallion, 2005), and is reasonable in this case given that the scheme is relatively recent and there is substantial similarity between the control and treatment groups as regards demographic characteristics and location (see Table 1).”
How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit (2012, methodology): “Quasi-experimental methods are by definition based on non-random allocation and can be applied to assignment rules based on a cut-off on a continuous scale such as a test score or poverty index (regression discontinuity design (RDD)), some other form of exogenous variation (natural experiments) or s”
Evaluating China's poverty alleviation program: A regression discontinuity approach (2013, background): “Estimating program effectiveness is often complicated by the nonrandomness of program placement (Ravallion, 2008).”
Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty in Bangladesh? New Evidence from Household Panel Data (2012, neutral): “(1997), Ravallion ( 2008 ), Smith and Todd ( 2005 ), and Todd ( 2008 ).”
Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda (2011, background): “12 See Ravallion (2008) for a general description of cross-sectional difference-in-difference approaches.”
The Triple Difference Estimator (2020, background): “However, Ravallion (2007) cites Ravallion et al. (2005) which shows a very special case of the triple difference estimator and the identifying assumptions for that special case.”
Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification: A Panel Data Analysis from Vietnam (2013, background): “There are alternate ways to resolve such bias due to time-variant heterogeneity ðRavallion 2008; Khandker, Koolwal, and Samad 2010Þ.”