{"id":559,"date":"2019-10-19T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=559"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:33:05","slug":"books-impact-evaluation-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/books-impact-evaluation-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"CDE Course Text: Impact Evaluation in Practice <\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\n\t\t Impact Evaluation in Practice <\/em>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\twritten by Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura Rawlings, and Christel Vermeersch\n\t<\/h4>\n\t

Excerpts from this book have been listed as required reading in a CDE course in public economics, and recommended as a reference text for the CDE elective, Program Evaluation.<\/p>\n

Sections of particular interest include those on “Causal inference and counterfactuals” and “differences-in-differences.”<\/p>\n

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Impact Evaluation in Practice<\/em>, by Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura Rawlings and Christel M.J. Vermeersh, was first published by the World Bank Group in 2011 with a second edition in 2016. This book provides an in-depth introduction to impact evaluation.<\/p>\n

The book is designed as a practical guide, furnishing examples and case studies about study design and evluation. The manual covers topics such as what to evaluate; current best-practice methods for impact evaluation; managing impact evaluation projects; sampling; and data collection.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload the pdf from the World Bank\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

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Gertler, P. J., S. Martinez, P. Premand, L. B. Rawlings and C. M. J. Vermeersch (2011). Impact Evaluation in Practice<\/em>. Washington, D.C., World Bank Publications.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the research topics\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the Program Evaluation course page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGo to the Public Economics course page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tView other CDE courses\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView research by region\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView our latest book recommendations\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpts from this book are required as reading for the CDE course Public Economics. The book is also listed as a reference text for the CDE elective Program Evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65,60,100,666,660,648],"tags":[180,176,177,165,182,174,179,181,178],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content-type","category-methods-and-measurement-browse-by-research-topic","category-program-evaluation-books-godlonton","category-public-economics-books-bakija","category-syllabi","tag-data-collection","tag-impact-evaluation","tag-measurement","tag-methods","tag-portuguese","tag-public-economics","tag-sampling","tag-spanish","tag-world-bank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}