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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs [get by e-mail] June 1, 2005 The paper critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively...
This paper proposes a simple conceptual framework for monitoring and evaluation of AIDS programs, using the intermediate or proximate determinants conceptual framework used in the study of fertility and child survival.
This article describes a method to obtain a randomized control group where it seems impossible by using the participants' compliance to program instructions as a means of classifying participants and, thereby, obtaining a randomized control group for a subset of participants.
The contents of a poverty monitoring system may vary from one country to the next, but the way in which it is formulated remains essentially the same and many of the elements described in this document can be expected to be found in most systems. The approach is not limited to poverty monitoring alone but is one that can be applied to any sector for which statistical information needs to be collected and analyzed. It builds on the idea that monitoring systems are demand-driven and developed in an integrated fashion.
This paper explores issues that arise in the evaluation of social programs using experimental data in the frequently encountered case where some of the experimental treatment group members drop out of the program prior to receiving treatment.
This report contrasts the effects of foreign aid on developing countries when it is imposed from abroad and when it supports a country's own development strategy.
The paper explores the impact of attrition of the second generation of respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) on estimates based on data from the second generation.
One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed towards improving the nutritional status of children in poor rural communities in Mexico. This paper studies the impact of the PROGRESA program on child growth and the probability of child stunting.
Este estudio de caso se basa en un programa hipotético contra la pobreza, PROSCOL, que proporciona transferencias en efectivo orientadas hacia familias pobres con hijos en edad escolar en una región de un determinado país en desarrollo. Con este caso se desean ilustrar los pasos analíticos que componen la puesta en práctica de una evaluación de impacto y las opciones que puede enfrentar un analista, en un proceso que es aplicable a cualquier tipo de programa contra la pobreza.
This paper describes a computer model framework for tax-benefit modeling that provides flexibility in defining the specific parameters for use in a multitude of modeling purposes. It also illustrates possible approaches by reference to the EUROMOD tax-benefit model.
The central question addressed in this paper is whether or not randomized social experiments aid in securing answers to basic questions about the evaluation of social programs.
